WOOD RAT 



outer sides of legs; tail above blackish, below dull white. 

 Total length, males, 15. 6-16. 5 inches; tail vertebras, 7.5-8.1 

 inches; hind foot, i. 44-1. 60 inches. Found in "Swamp 

 region of southern Illinois, and southward to northeastern 



Fig. Si. Distribution of the subspecies of Neotoma floridana, 

 after Goldman 



1. Neotoma floridana bailey i 



2. Neotoma floridana attwateri 



3. Neotoma floridana rubida 



4. Neotoma floridana illinonensis 



5. Neotoma floridana floridana 



Arkansas. Austroriparian division of Lower Austral Zone. ' ' 

 (Goldman) 

 Bailey Wood Rat. — Neototna floridana baileyi (Merriam) . 

 Pelage longer than in typical floridana; grayer in color ; tail 

 shorter, bicolored. Upperparts (winter) creamy buff to 

 buffy gray sprinkled with dusky on back; sides clearer in 

 tone than back; feet white; tail brownish gray above, white 

 below in sharp contrast ; underparts white. Summer pelage 



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