WOOD RAT 



Found on Charleston Peak, Charleston Mountains, Clark 

 County Nebraska. 

 Bushy-tailed Wood Rat. — Neotoma cinerea drummondi (Rich- 

 ardson). 

 Resembling typical cinerea, but pelage longer, tail more 

 bushy. Upperparts grayish buff, washed with dusky; 

 dusky on orbital ring; rest of pelage as in typical cinerea, 

 except that there is a sharp line of demarcation between 



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Fig. 83. Bushy-tailed Wood Rat 



dark color of forelegs and white feet instead of insensible 

 blending as in cinerea. Total length, 15.3 inches; tail 

 vertebrae, 6.7 inches; hind foot, 1.76 inches. Found in 

 "Rocky Mountains of eastern British Columbia and 

 western Alberta, north of the range of N. cinerea. Canadian 

 Zone." (Goldman) 

 Osgood Bushy-tailed Wood Rat. — Neotoma cinerea saxamans 

 (Osgood). 

 Darker in color and tail more bushy than in typical cinerea. 

 Upperparts buffy gray darkened everywhere by sprinkling 

 of dusky; feet white; tail above brownish gray for one-third 

 of its length, slaty gray on last two-thirds, below white, 

 banded with buffy gray at base; underparts white. Total 

 length, 16.2 inches; tail vertebras, 7 inches; hind foot, 1.88 

 inches. Found in "Northern British Columbia west of the 

 Rocky Mountains, limits of range unknown. Canadian 

 and Hudsonian Zones." (Goldman) 



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