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ern New Mexico, passing farther north into lepida.^* 

 (Goldman) 



Pennsylvanica Group 



Allegheny Wood Rat. — Neotoma pefinsylvan-ica Stone. 



Largest of the round-tailed species of Neotoma. "Tail 

 moderately long, well haired, bicolored; ears large, pelage 

 coarse; cranial characters pronounced; no closely related 



Fig. 82. 



Distribution of Neotoma pennsylvanica, after 

 Goldman 



living species known. Color. — -Fresh winter pelage: Up- 

 perparts grayish buff, becoming buffy gray on head, heavily 

 overlaid, especially on back, with blackish ; feet and under- 

 parts white, the fur pure white to roots, except along sides 

 of belly, where the basal color is pale plumbeous; axillae 

 creamy buff, tail varying from grayish brown to black above, 

 whitish below." (Goldman) Total length, 17.2 inches; 

 tail vertebras, 8 inches; hind foot, 1.7 inches. Found in 

 "Appalachian Mountain region from southern New York to 

 northern Alabama, probably including western North Caro- 

 hna and northern Georgia, and westward to Mammoth 

 Cave, Kentucky, and Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. Alleghen- 

 ian and Carolinian Zones." (Goldman) Plate XXXIII. 



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