RODENTIA: CRICETIDAE 549 



magister — group 



Neotoma magister Bairdf * 



1858. N[eotoma] magister Baird, Mammals, in Rep. Expl. Surv. Railr. to 

 Pacific, vol. 8, pt. 1 (Washington, 1857), p. 498, July 14, 1858. (See also 

 Rhoads, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 46, pp. 213-221, Sept. 18, 

 1894; E. L. Poole, Journ. Mamm., vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 316-318, Aug. 13, 

 1940; and G. S. Miller, Jr., Journ. Mamm., vol. 21, No. 3, p. 321, Aug. 13, 

 1940.) 

 1893. Neotoma pennsylvanica Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 vol. 45, p. 16, February 1893. (Near top of South Mountain, Cumberland 

 County, Pa., some 6 miles from Pine Grove, at a point known as Lewis's 

 cave. ) 

 Type Locality. — Cave near Carlisle, Cumberland County, or near Harrisburg, 

 Dauphin County, Pa. Range. — Mountainous district of extreme western Con- 

 necticut (Goodwin, Connecticut Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Bull. 53, p. 124, 1935) 

 and Appalachian Mountain region from southern New York south through 

 Pennsylvania, southeastern Ohio (Bole and Moulthrop, Sci. Publ. Cleveland 

 Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 5, No. 6, p. 146, Sept. 11, 1942), West Virginia (Kellogg, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 84, p. 466, Oct. 7, 1937), western Virginia (Handley 

 and Patton, Wild Mammals of Virginia, p. 168, 1947), Kentucky and eastern 

 Tennessee (Kellogg, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 86, p. 283, Feb. 14, 1939) to 

 Tennessee River in northern Alabama (A. H. Howell, North Amer. Fauna No. 

 45, p. 53, Oct. 28, 1921), westward to Mammoth Cave, Ky., and northward to 

 extreme southern Indiana (Lyon, Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 17, No. 1, p. 243, Jan- 

 uary 1936). Recorded also from Allegheny Plateau, Venango County, north- 

 western Pennsylvania (Richmond and Roslund, Journ. Mamm., vol. 31, No. 2, 

 p. 198, May 25, 1950). 



Subgenus HOMODONTOMYS * Goldman 



1910. Homodontomys Goldman, North Amer. Fauna No. 31, p. 86, Oct. 19, 

 1910. (Type, Neotoma fuscipes Baird.) 



Neotoma fuscipes fuscipes 25 Bairdf* 



1858. Neotoma fuscipes Baird, Mammals, in Rep. Expl. Surv. Railr. to Pacific, 



vol. 8, pt. 1 (Washington, 1857) , p. 495, July 14, 1858. 

 1884. Neotoma fuscipes True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29), 



p. 598, Nov. 29, 1884. (Part.) 



1894. Neotoma splendens Truef, Diagnoses of some undescribed wood rats 



(genus Neotoma) in the National Museum, p. 1, June 27, 1894 (Preprint of 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 17, p. 353, Nov. 15, 1894. Marin County, Calif) . 



Type Locality. — Petaluma, Sonoma County, Calif. Range. — Inner Coast 



Range of California, north from San Francisco Bay to Oregon line; at north, 



* Validity questioned by Hooper, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 42, No. 4, p. 213, 

 Mar. 1, 1938. Regarded as a synonym of Neotoma by Burt and Barkalow, Journ. Mamm., 

 vol. 23, No. 3, p. 296, Aug. 14, 1942. 



" Races of Neotoma fuscipes revised by Hooper, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 42, No. 4, 

 pp. 213-244, Mar. 1, 1938. 



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