CATALOG OF TYPE SPECIMENS OF MAMMALS 273 



fMicrotus canicaudus Miller. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 11 : 67, Apr. 21, 1897. 

 75841. Skin and skull. Adult male. McCoy, Willamette Valley, 

 Polk County, Oreg. December 1, 1895. Collected by B. J. 

 Bretherton. Original number 219. 



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



*ArvicoIa (Pedomys) cinnamomea Baird. 



Mammals of North America, p. 541, 1857. 

 =Microtus ochrogaster (Wagner). See Osgood, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 

 20: 48, Apr. 18, 1907. 



^^. Skin (lost) and skull. Adult male. Pembina (?), Pembina 

 1714 ^ ^ 



County, N. Dak. Collected by C. Cavileer. Original number 

 23. Cataloged March 19, 1855.' 



The skin, number 591, according to a note in the catalog, was misplaced 

 before 1890. It has not been found since. Skull Grade A. 



Baird had but one specimen, the above, designated by number. 



Bailey, North Amer. Fauna 17 : 74, 1900, says, "Except for a slightly ab- 

 normal tooth pattern, Baird's type of cinnamomea is a large specimen of 

 typical austerus. I cannot believe that it ever came from Pembina." 



fMicrotus dutcheri Bailey. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 12 : 85, Apr. 30, 1898. 

 =Microtus montanus dutcheri Bailey. See Grinnell, Proc. California Acad. Sci. 

 (ser. 4) 3: 317, Aug. 28, 1913. 



-Jr- . Skin and skull. Collected by J. L. LeConte, California, 

 41848 "^ ' 



near Mount Whitney, altitude 10,000 feet, Tulare County, Calif. 

 July 10, 1891. Collected by B. H. Dutcher. Original nimiber 69. 

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



*Arvicola edax LeConte. 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 6: 405, favorably reported for publication 

 Oct. 25, 1853. 

 =Microtus caUfornicns caUfornicus (LeConte). See Trouessart, Catalogus 

 Maramalium tarn Viventium quam Fossilium, p. 563, 1897. 



4721 , Skin and skull. Collected by J. L. LeConte. California, 

 37298 



south of San Francisco (probabh^ Monterey, according to R. 



Kellogg, Univ. California Publ. Zool. 21 : 18, Dec. 28, 1918) . Skin 



cataloged April 13, 1861 ; skull April 27, 1897. 



Specimen made into a modern study skin and skull in the early part of 

 1897. Skull Grade C. 



Major LeConte did not designate a type. The present specimen is the 

 one that Baird alludes to as "the orginal of the species as described by Major 

 LeConte." Mammals of North America, p. 532, 1857. 



