RODENTIA: MURIDAE 619 



Type Locality. — Wakeeney, Trego County, Kans. Range. — Central plains 

 region of middle western United States and Canada; from southwestern Mani- 

 toba, southern Saskatchewan, and Alberta (Soper, Journ. Mamm., vol. 27, No. 2, 

 p. 148, May 14, 1946; Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 165, 

 Jan. 24, 1947) south to northern Texas (Hollister, North Amer. Fauna No. 32, 

 p. 31, Apr. 29, 1911) ; and from eastern Montana, eastern Wyoming, and eastern 

 Colorado (Warren, The mammals of Colorado, . . . , p. 234, 1942) eastward 

 to southwestern corner and Red River Valley of Minnesota, western Iowa, and 

 northwestern Missouri. 



Ondatra zibethicus rivalicius (Bangs) * 



1895. Fiber zibethicus rivalicius Bangs, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 26, 

 p. 541, July 31, 1895. 



1912. Ondatra rivalicia Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 79, p. 232, Dec. 31, 1912. 



1940. Ondatra z[ibethicus] rivalicius Davis and Lowery, Journ. Mamm., vol. 

 21, No. 2, p. 212, May 14, 1940. 



Type Locality. — Burbridge, Plaquemines Parish, La. Range. — Coast region 

 of Louisiana, north to northern Calcasieu, Pointe Coupee, and Tangipahoa 

 Parishes; and in Alabama coast region west of Mobile Bay (A. H. Howell, 

 North Amer. Fauna No. 45, p. 57, Oct. 28, 1921) ; and in Texas west at least to 2 

 miles southwest of Pasadena, Harris County (Davis and Lowery, Journ. Mamm., 

 vol. 21, No. 2, p. 213, May 16, 1940) . 



Family Muridae 



Subfamily murinae 

 Genus RATTUS 50 G. Fischer 



1803. Ruttus [sic] G. Fischer, Das Nationalmuseum der Naturgeschichte zu 

 Paris, . . . , vol. 2, p. 128. (Type, Mus decumanus Pallas = Mus 

 norvegicus Berkenhout.) 



1881. Epimys Trouessart, Bull. Soc. d'fitudes Sci. d' Angers, vol. 10, fasc. 2, 

 p. 117. (Type, by subsequent designation, Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- 

 ington, vol. 23, p. 58, Apr. 19, 1910, Mus rattus Linnaeus. For present 

 status see Ellerman, The families and genera of living rodents, vol. 2, p. 

 148, Mar. 21, 1941.) 



1917. Epinomys Elliot, A check list of mammals of the North American con- 

 tinent, the West Indies and the neighboring seas, Suppl., Publ. Amer. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist. p. 41, Mar. 27, 1917. 



Rattus norvegicus 01 (Berkenhout)* ("Norway" rat) 



1769. Mus norvegicus Berkenhout, Outlines of the natural history of Great 

 Britain . . . , vol. 1, p. 5. 



80 See Hollister, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 29, p. 126, June 6, 1916; Thomas, Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 18, p. 240, August 1916; and Hollister, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- 

 ington, vol. 29, pp. 206-207, Sept. 22, 1916. 



51 See Cabrera, Trab. Mus. Cien. Nat., Madrid, ser. zool., No. 57, p. 264, Dec. 30, 1932. The 

 name occurs on page 5 of Berkenhout's Synopsis of the Natural History of Great Britain 

 and Ireland, vol. 1, 1795. 



