488 



BULLETIN 56, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Description. — Size, small. Length, .300 mm.; tail vertebrae, 125; 

 hind foot, 30; ear from crown, 27. Ears, large. Pelage remarkably 

 long, soft, and silky. Color above ochraceous buff; head smoke gray; 

 under parts, white, sometimes faintly washed with pinkish buff; tail, 

 bicolor, dusky above, white below. 



Cranial and dental characters. — Skull light, with remarkabl}^ large 

 tympanic bullae. 



RemarTis. — On the Mexican Line this beautiful species has been 

 foundonly at Yuma, on the Colorado River. 



NEOTOMA FUSCIPES MA- 

 CROTIS (Thomas). 



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SAN DIEGO WOOD-RAT. 



Neotoma macrotis Thomas, Ann. 

 andMag.Nat. Hist.,6t,h Ser., 

 XII, Sept., 1893, pp. 234, 

 235 (from San Diego, Cali- 

 fornia; original description). 



Neotoma macrotis simplex True, 

 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., XVII, 

 1894, p. 354 (advance sheet 

 issued June 27, 1894). (A 

 pale interior form). 



Neotoma fiiscipes macrotis, Mer- 

 RiAM, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1894, p. 242.— Mil- 

 ler and Rehn, Proc. Bost. 

 See. Nat. Hist., XXX, No. 

 1, Dec. 27, 1801, p. 104 

 (Syst. Kesults Stud.y N . Am. 

 Mam. to close of 1900). 



[Neotoma fiiscipes] macrotis , 

 Elliot, Field Col. Mus., 

 Zool. Ser., II, 1901, p. 159 

 (Synop. Mam. N. Am.). 



Fig. 120.— Neotoma fuscipes macrotis. a, ear; b, fore- olrj]-) and 

 foot; c. hindfoot; d, tail. 



Type-locality. — San 

 Diego, California. (Type, 

 skull, in the 

 British Museum.) 

 Geographical range. — Pacific Coast Tract of southern and Lower 

 California; inhabits the Sonoran Zone. 



Description. — Size, rather large. Length, 370 nun.; tail verte- 

 bme, 170; hind foot, 35; ear from crown, 25; Skull, 47 by 25. Above 

 russet-drab, mixed with blackish; head and limbs mouse-gray; feet 

 (fig. 1205 and c) with the usual white color more or less replaced by 

 dusky or blackish down to the toes; under surface, white (except the 

 tail), more or less washed with ochraceous buff across the abdomen; 

 tail (fig. 120d) not distinctl}^ bicolor, but black, slightly mixed with 

 gray above and sootj^ grayish below; ears (fig. 120a) large, scantily 

 haired, faintly edged with grayish white, and blackish on anterior third 



