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American Museum of Natural History 



(AMNH) 

 Albert Schwartz (private collection) 



(AS) 

 California Institute of Technology 



(CIT) 

 Carlsbad Caverns National Park (CC) 

 Charleston (South Carolina) Museum 



(ChM) 

 Carnegie Museum (CM) 

 Chicago Natural History Museum 



(CNHM) 

 W. Gene Frum (private collection) 



(GF) 

 Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Na- 



cional Aut6noma de Mexico (IB) 

 Illinois Natural History Survey 



(INHS) 

 University of Kansas Museum of 



Natural History (KU) 

 Louisiana State University Museum 



of Zoology (LSU) 

 Harvard University Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology (MCZ) 

 University of California Museum of 



Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) 

 Oklahoma A. & M. College (0AM) 



College (Texas Co- 

 Wildlife Collection) 



Ohio State Museum (OSM) 



School of Tropical and Preventive 

 Medicine, Loma Linda, Calif. 

 (STPM) 



Texas A. & M. 

 operative 

 (TCWC) 



Texas State Department of Health, 

 Austin, Tex. (TSDH) 



Texas Technological College (TT) 



University of Arkansas Department of 

 Zoology (UAZ) 



University of Illinois Museum of Nat- 

 ural History (UI) 



University of Kentucky Zoology De- 

 partment (UK) 



University of Michigan Museum of 

 Zoology (UMMZ) 



University of Oklahoma Museum of 

 Zoology (UOMZ) 



U.S. National Museum (including 

 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's 

 Biological Surveys collection) 

 (USNM) 



University of Utah Museum of Zool- 

 ogy (UU) 



I express sincere thanks and appreciation to the owners of private 

 collections and to the museum authorities who kindly loaned speci- 

 mens for my study. To those at the American Museum of Natural 

 History and at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Univer- 

 sity, I am particularly grateful. I am indebted to Seth B. Benson, 

 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, and to 

 Rollin H. Baker and E. Raymond Hall, Museum of Natural History, 

 University of Kansas, for the loan of specimens set aside for their 

 personal study. Special thanks are due to John A. Sealander, Univer- 

 sity of Arkansas, for allowing me to utilize specimens under his care 

 in the description of a new subspecies, and for his kindness in depositing 

 the type specimen in the U.S. National Museum; and to Aurelio 

 Malaga Alba, Pan American Sanitary Bureau, for his cooperation in 

 securing much needed Mexican specimens, one of which has served 

 as the type of a new subspecies. The Fish and Wildlife Service, 

 U.S. Department of the Interior, has generously allowed me to utilize 

 from its files the unpublished field notes of its collectors. 



The following individuals contributed information and other assist- 

 ance for which I am grateful: R. W. Barbour, F. L. Burnett, W. W. 

 Dalquest, W. G. Frum, A. F. Ganier, Helen Gaylord, B. P. Glass, 

 Woodrow Goodpaster, R. M. Goslin, Iracy O. Handley, R. H. Hand- 



