NORTH AMERICAN RECENT MAMMALS. 429 



■*Rattus norvegicus — Continued. 



1916. Rattus norvegicus Hollister, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing- 

 ton, vol. 29, p. 126. June 6, 1916. 

 Type Locality. — Norway. Introduced and widely established 

 in North America. 



Formerly known a,s: Mus decumanus Pallas (Nov. sp. quadr. glir. ord., p. 

 91, 1778). For change see Rehn, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 13, p. 167, 

 October 31, 1900. 



Genus MUS Linnaeus. 



1758. Mus LiNNiEus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 59. Type, 

 Mus musculus Linn^us (by tautonymy). 



*Mus musculus musculus Linnaeus. (House-mouse.) 



1758. [Mus] musculus Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 62. 

 Type Locality. — Upsala, Sweden. Introduced and widely 

 established in North America. 



*Mus musculus jalapse Allen and Chapman. 



1897. Mus musculus jalapse Allen and Chapman, Bull. Amer. 



Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 9, p. 198. June 16, 1897. 

 Type Locality. — Jalapa, Vera Cruz, Mexico. 



Superfamily DIPODOID^. 



Family APLODONTIID^. 



Genus APLODONTIA Richardson." 

 (Mountain-beavers.) 



1829. Aplodontia Richardson, Zool. Joum., vol. 4, p. 334- 

 January, 1829. Type, Aplodontia leporina Richardson = 

 Anisonyx rufa Rafinesque. 



*Aplodontia rufa rufa (Rafinesque). 



1817. Anisonyx f rufa Rafinesque, Amer. Monthly Magazine, 

 vol. 2, p. 45. November, 1817. 



1885. Haplodon rufus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (1884), 

 p. 596. 1885. 



1886. Aplodontia rufa Merriam, Ann. New York Acad. Sci., 

 vol. 3, p. 316. May, 1886. 



1914. Aplodontia cJiryseola L. Kellogg, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., 



vol. 12, p. 295. April 15, 1914. (Jackson Lake, Siskiyou 



County, California.) 

 1916. Aplodontia rufa grisea Taylor, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., 



vol. 12, p. 497. May 6, 1916. (Renton, near Seattle, King 



County, Washington.) 



• Revised by Taylor, Univ. Calif., Publ. Zool., vol. 17, pp. 435-504, May 29, 1918. 



