DESCRIPTION OF A NEW WOOD-RAT FROM THE 

 COAST RANGE OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. 



BY W. W. PRICE. 



Neotoma calif ornica sp. no v. Plate xi. 



Type No. 335, 3 ad., Museum of the Leland Stanford 

 Junior University. From Bear Valley, San Benito 

 County, California, x^pril 2, 1893. Collected by C. H. 

 Gilbert and W. W. Price. 



General Characters. — Closely related to N. mexicana, 

 from which it differs in its darker, less fulvous coloration, 

 its longer ears, and the cranial characters as given below. 

 Tail densely haired, concealing the annuli, sharply bi- 

 colored. Ears very large. Throat ashy gray, the white 

 confined to tip of hairs. Upper surface of feet pure 

 white. 



Aleasnrcniciits (taken in the flesh). — Total length, 336; 

 tail vertebrae, 160; hind foot, 35; ear from crown, 34; 

 ear from notch (dry skin), 25. 



Color. — Upper parts yellowish-brown, darker on middle 

 of back, becoming lighter but not brighter on the flanks, 

 and with little or no fulvous wash. Under parts grayish- 

 white, the hairs everywhere plumbeous at base, with the 

 exception of two broad patches between fore and hind 

 legs and a connecting line along middle of belly, in which 

 the hairs are white to the base. The ashy-white extends 

 well up on the flanks, and on snout to the base of the 

 whiskers. The yellowish-brown of the upper parts ex- 

 tends low on sides of head, and crosses the breast in a 

 faint line in front of the fore legs. It passes down the 

 upper surfaces of the legs to wrist and ankle, where it 

 stops abruptly, leaving the upper surfaces of the feet 

 pure white. Tail bicolored, white below and on sides, 

 blackish above, darker toward the tip. Ears dusky, 



lli Ser. Vol. 111. May 9, 1894. 



