FIELD BOOK OF MAMMALS 



Upperparts brownish gray, heavily sprinkled with black- 

 tipped hairs on back; sides paler than back; ears grayish; 

 feet white, streaked with dusky on hind feet; tail above 

 brownish black, below dull white; underparts white, occas- 

 ionally with creamy tinge on abdomen. Total length, 15.5 

 inches; tail vertebrae, 7.3 inches; hind foot, 1.5 inches. 

 Found in "The Mohave Desert, in southern California, 

 Lower Sonoran Zone." (Goldman) 

 Large-eared Wood Rat. — Neotoma fuscipes macrotis (Thomas). 

 Resembling mohavensis, but darker. Upperparts grayish 

 brown, tinged with buff to ochraceous buff, with dorsal 

 darkening of black-tipped hairs; paler on head and sides; 

 dusky on "ankles" and hind feet; white on forefeet and toes 

 of hind feet; tail above, brownish black, below, whitish; 

 underparts white, sometimes tinged with buffy on abdomen, 

 where pelage is slate-colored basally. Total length, 14.2 

 inches; tail vertebras, 6.8 inches; hind foot, 1.5 inches. 

 Found in "Pacific coast region from Monterey Bay, Cali- 

 fornia, south through the San Pedro Martir Mountains, 

 Lower California. Upper Sonoran and Transition Zones." 

 (Goldman) 



Subgenus Teonoma 



Characterized by large, bushy tail; hind foot densely furred 

 on sole; and by various cranial characters. 



Gray Bushy-tailed Wood Rat. — Neotoma cinerea cinerea (Ord). 

 Size large; hind feet large and heavily furred from heel to 

 posterior plantar tubercle ; ears large ; pelage long and thick. 

 Upperparts grayish buff to ochraceous buff, thickly sprink- 

 led with dusky hairs on back; fore- and hind feet white; ears 

 edged faintly with whitish, clothed with brownish and gray- 

 ish hairs; tail noticeably bushy but flattened, above brown- 

 ish gray, below white, banded with pale buffy at base; 

 underparts white. Total length, 15.5 inches; tail vertebras, 

 6.5 inches; hind foot, 1.7 inches. Found in "Rocky Moun- 

 tain region in southern British Columbia, Montana, Idaho, 

 western Wyoming, Utah, northern Arizona, and thence 

 westward through the mountains of central Nevada to the 

 southern part of the Sierra Nevada in California. Canadian 

 Zone and down along cold cliffs and canyons well into the 

 Transition Zone." (Goldman) Plate XXXIIL 



Nevada Bushy-tailed Wood Rat. — Neotoma cinerea lucida 

 Goldman. 

 Much smaller and paler than typical cinerea. Upperparts 

 light buff to light ochraceous-buff, with faint sprinkling of 

 black-tipped hairs; buffy grayish on middle of face, sides of 

 muzzle and outer sides of limbs; tail above grayish, below 

 white; underparts and feet white. Total length, 13.4 

 inches; tail vertebras, 5.4 inches; hind foot, 1.6 inches. 



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