308 VERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF THE UNITED STATES 



P. pectoralis laceianus Bailey. Color pinkish buff above mixed 

 with dusky; under parts pure white; length 187 mm.; tail 96 mm.; hind 

 foot 23 mm. : west-central Texas and Mexico. 



P. truei (Shufeldt). Rock mouse. Color ochraceous buff above, 

 mixed with fine dusky lines; under parts creamy white; feet white; tail 

 slightly bicolor; length 186 mm.; tail 92 mm.; hind foot 23 mm.; ears 

 very large, equal in length to hind foot: Pacific and southwestern States 

 and Mexico. 



Subspecies of P. truei 



P. t. truei (Schuf.). Eastern California to eastern New Mexico and 

 southeastern Colorado. 



P. t. gilberti (Allen). Size larger and color darker: mountains of 

 interior California and the coast south of San Francisco Bay; north- 

 ward to central Oregon. 



P. t. martirensis (Allen). Size large; tail long: mountains of south- 

 western California. 



P. nuttalli (Harlan). Golden mouse. Color ochraceous above, 

 creamy white suffused with ochraceous below; ears ochraceous; length 

 181 mm.; tail 85 mm.; hind foot 20 mm.: southeastern Virginia south- 

 westward to northern Alabama, thence north to southern Kentucky. 



Subspecies of P. nuttalli 



P. n. nuttalli (Harl.) . Distribution as given above. 



P. n. aureolus (Audubon & Bachman). Size smaller: southeastern 

 States, from North Carolina, east of the mountains, to northern Florida; 

 Gulf slope to eastern Texas and north into Missouri. 



P. floridanus (Chap.). Size large; color pale ochraceous buff; 

 under parts white; length 200 mm.; tail 86 mm.; hind foot 26 mm.; 

 plantar tubercles 5: central Florida, from coast to coast. 



P. crinitus (Merr.). Color buff above, white beneath; mammae 4; 

 length 176 mm., tail 95 mm.; hind foot 21 mm.: Great Basin, from eastern 

 Oregon and southern Idaho to Lower California. 



P. californicus (Gambel). Size very large, being the largest in the 

 country; length 243 mm.; tail 133 mm.; hind foot 27 mm.; color russet 

 above, mixed with black; under parts creamy white; ears very large: 

 coast region of California from San Francisco into Lower California. 



P. eremicus (Baird). Color ochraceous buff above; white beneath; 

 tail long; length 183 mm.; tail loi mm.; hind foot 20 mm.: southeastern 

 California to western Texas. 



