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90957. Skin and skull. Adult female. Plateado, altitude 7,600 

 feet, Zacatecas, Mexico. September 4, 1897. Collected by E. W. 

 Nelson and E. A. Goldman, Original number 11641. 



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



*Neotoma macrotis simplex True. 



Diagnoses of Some Uudescribed Wood Rats (genus Neotoma) in the National 

 Museum, p. 2, June 27, 1894. (Reprint: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 17: 354, 

 Nov. 1.5, 1894. ) 

 —Neotoma fuxripcft .simplex True. See Miller and Rehn, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. 

 Hist. 30: 105, Dec. 27, 1901. 



?^^J. Skin and skull. Adult male. Old Fort Tejon, Tehachapi 

 Mountains, Kern County, Calif. 1857-58. Collected by J. 



Xantus. Original number I^'^. Cataloged March 24, 1859. 



to ^gg to ? 



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

 *Neotoma magister Baird. Cotypes. 



Mammals of North America, pp. 486, 498, 1857. 



For remarks concerning the relations of this species with existing forms 

 of Neotoma see E. L. Poole. Journ. Mannn. 21 : 316-318, Aug. 14, 1940; Miller, 

 Journ. Mamm. 21 : 321, Aug. 14, 1940. 



The cotypes are as follows, all collected in a cave near Carlisle, Pa., by 

 S. F. Baird. They were not entered in the Museum catalog until October 

 24, 1872. 



12206. Left half of mandible ; complete, except for coronoid process. 



12207. Right half of mandible ; all molar teeth and angular process 

 missing. 



12208. Right half of mandible ; last molar, angular, condyloid, and 

 coronoid processes missing. 



12209. Right half of mandible; all teeth, angular, condyloid, and 

 coronoid processes missing. 



12210. Left half of mandible; all molars, angular, coronoid, and 

 condyloid processes missing. [Not found in 1940.] 



12211. Middle i)ortion of left half of mandible, containing last two 

 molars and root of incisor. 



12212. Left half of mandible ; all the teeth, angular, condyloid, and 

 coronoid processes missing. 



12213. Anterior portion of right half of mandible, containing only 

 the incisor. 



12214. Fragment of left premaxilla, containing the incisor. 



Cotypes not designated by number. The above are the only specimens 

 known in the Museum and are uiHiuestionably the ones upon which Baird 

 based his description. 



