NORTH AMERICAN RECENT MAMMALS. 425 



t*Neofiber alleni nigrescens Howell. 



1920. Neojiber alleni nigrescens Howell, Joum. Mamm., vol. 1, 



p. 79. March 2, 1920. 

 Type Locality. — Ritta, south shore of Lake Okeechobee, 



Palm Beach County, Florida. 

 Range. — Southern Florida. 



Genus ONDATRA Link.^ (Musk-rats.) 



1795. Ondatra Link, Beytrage zur Naturgesch.,vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 76. 

 Type by tautonymy, Castor zibeihicus Linnjeus.* 



* Ondatra obscura (Bangs). 



1894. Filer ohscurus Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 9, 



p. 133. September 15, 1894. 

 1912. Ondatra o6scwra Miller, North Amer. Land Mamm. 1911, 



p. 230. December 31, 1912. 

 Type Locality. — Codroy, Newfoundland. 

 Range. — Newfoundland. 



*Ondatra zibethica zibethica (Linnaeus). 



1766. [Cantor] zibethicusLn^NMUs, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, vol. 1, p. 79. 



1795. [Ondatra] zibetMcus Link, Beytrage zur Naturgesch., vol. 1, 

 pt. 2, p. 76. 



1885. Fiber zihetUcus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (1884), 

 p. 596. 1885. 



1912. Ondatra zibethica zibethica Miller, North Amer. Land 

 Mamm. 1911, p. 230. December 31, 1912. 



Type Locality. — Eastern Canada. 



Range. — Southeastern Canada, northeastern and east central 

 United States; from New Brunswick and Quebec west to 

 Minnesota, and south to northern Georgia and Arkansas, ex- 

 cept along the Atlantic seaboard south of Delaware Bay. 



t*Ondatra zibethica macrodon (Merriam). 



1897. Fiber macrodon Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. 11, p. 143. May 13, 1897. 



1911. F[iber] niger Brass, Aus dem Reiche der Pelze, p. 604. 

 (New Jersey and Delaware.) 



1912. Ondatra zibethica macrodon IMiller, North Amer. Land 

 Mamm. 1911, p. 230. December 31, 1912. 



Type Locality. — Lake Drummond, Dismal Swamp, Norfolk 



County, Virginia. 

 Range. — ^liddle Atlantic coast region of the United States, from 



Delaware Bay to Pamlico Sound; inland to Washington, D. C, 



Virginia, and Raleigh, North Carolina. 



» Revised (under name Fiber) by Hollister, North Amer. Fauna, No. 32, Apr. 29, 1911. 

 « International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, Opinion 55, Smiths. Inst. Publ. 2169, pp. 

 12ft-127, May 12, 1913. 



