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*Oryzomys palustris palustris — Continued. 



Range. — ^Atlantic coastal areas from southern New Jersey (not 

 yet known from Delaware or Maryland, but doubtless occurs 

 there) south to northeastern Florida, thence westward through 

 southern Georgia to the Gulf coast of Alabama and Mississippi, 

 and north through Alabama and western Tennessee to south- 

 western Kentucky, southern Illinois, and parts of south- 

 eastern Missouri. Altitudinal range from sea level up along 

 streams to about 500 feet (rarely to 1,000 feet), mainly in 

 Lower Austral Zone, but reaching into Upper Austral Zone in 

 southern New Jersey, southeastern Kentucky, and south- 

 eastern Missouri (Marble Hill). 



*Oryzomys palustris natator Chapman. 



1893. Oryzomys 'palustris natator Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. 5, p. 44. March 17, 1893. 



Type Locality. — Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida. 

 Range. — Central Florida, north of Everglades; Austroriparian 

 division of Lower Austral Zone. 



*Oryzomys palustris coloratus Bangs. 



1898. Oryzomys palustris coloratus Bangs, Proc. Boston Soc Nat. 



Hist., vol. 28, p. 189. March, 1898. 

 tl901. Oryzomys natator fioridanus Mekrl^m, Proc. Washington 



Acad. Sci., vol. 3, p. 277. July 26, 1901. (Everglade, Lee 



County, Florida.) 

 Type Locality. — Cape Sable, Monroe County, Florida. 

 Range. — Tropical southern Florida, north to Lake Okeechobee. 



*Oryzomys palustris texensis Allen. 



1894. Oryzomys palustris texensis Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 6, p. 177. May 31, 1894. 



Type Locality. — Rockport, Aransas County, Texas. 



Range. — From Corpus Christi Bay north and east along the 

 Gulf coast of Texas and Louisiana to the delta of the Mississippi 

 thence north in the Mississippi Valley to southeastern Mis- 

 souri; general range reaching southeastern Kansas, probably 

 by way of the Arkansas River valley through Oklahoma (not 

 yet known from Oklahoma) ; altitudinal range in Austrori- 

 parian Zone, mainly below 500 feet, but extending up to about 

 1,000 feet in Kansas. 



*Oryzomys couesi couesi (Alston). 



1876. Hesperomys couesi Alston, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 p. 756. 



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