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186498. Skin and skull. Adult female. Fort Buford, Williams 

 County, N. Dak. September 10, 1887. Collected by Vernon 



Bailey. Original number 226. Merriam collection number ^£f. 

 Well-made skin in good condition ; skull Grade A. 



*Arvicola pauperrima Cooper. 



Amer. Nat. 2 : 535, Dec. 1868. 

 =Lemmiscns pauperrimus (Cooper). See Davis, Recent Mammals of Idaho: 

 327, Apr. 5, 1939. 



^^9^, Skin and skull. Adult male. Plains of the Columbia, near 

 35071 ' 



the Snake River, southwestern Wash. October 9, 1860. Col- 

 lected by J. G. Cooper. Original number 126. 



Skin in poor condition ; parts about head and shoulders glued to a cotton 

 filling. Posterior upper parts good for color; all the feet present, also the 

 tail ; skull Grade D. 



Type designated by the original number. 



Genus LEMMUS Link 

 *Lemmus alascensis Merriam. 



Proc. Washington Acad. Sci. 2: 26, Mar. 14, 1900. 



186499. In alcohol, skull removed. Adult female. Point Barrow, 

 Alaska. June 11, 1883. Collected by John Murdock. Point 

 Barrow Expedition, Signal Corps, War Department. Original 



number 102. Merriam collection No. ^^. 



6166 



Viscera removed; an area of sloughed hair on back and another on left 



abdominal region ; skull Grade A. 



fLemmus minusculus Osgood. 



North Amer. Fauna 24 : 36, Nov. 23, 1901. 

 119612. Skin and skull. Adult male. Kakhtul River, near mouth 

 of Malchatna River, Alaska. September 1, 1902. Collected by 

 W. H. Osgood and A, G. Maddren. Original number 1903. 

 Well-made skin in good condition ; skull Grade A. 



*Myodes nigripes True. 



Diagnosis of New North American Mammals, p. 2, Apr. 26, 1894. (Reprinted 

 in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 17: 242, Nov. 15, 1894.) 

 =Lemmus nigripes (True). See Miller, North Amor. Fauna 12: 37, July 23, 



1896. 

 59152. Skin and skull. Adult male. St. George Island, Pribilof 

 Islands, Alaska. August 18, 1892 (or 1893) . Collected by C. H. 

 Townsend. 



Well-made skin in good condition ; skull Grade A. 



