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MONOQBAPHS Oi NOBTH AMERICAN EODBSTIA. 



peciiliar'tawny or fulvous of the genus, deepened somewhat on a dorsiil area 

 witli mouse-brown. 



These ore simply observed matters of fact, not open to question. Cer- 

 tain differences which actually exist, as well as the insensible blending of these 

 differences, may '>»'*.h be fairly signalized by the following formulee of nomen- 

 #.l"*"re and descripticn, in which the various names wliich have been proposed 

 are relegated to their proper place, covering diagnosis of typical (». c. extreme) 

 characters, and indication of the region in wliich such form more especially 

 prevails : — 



DIPODOMYS PHILLIPSI,* Gray. 

 Fhillipi'i Pooket-rat; "Kangaroo Bat". 



Dipodomp pUnipii, Gray, Add. Mag. N. H. vii, 1841, Ml ; Rep. Brif . A««>r. Adv. Sci. for 1841, 1843, Trans, 

 of the SeotioDs, 70. Real del Monte, Mex. (Type of goon*.)— Waon., " Suppl. Scbnib. iii, 

 1H43,8U5."— LeC, Pruo. Acad. Nat, Sci. Philu. vi, 1853, i234. (Sacrameiito Vulloy, Cul.)— GlKU., 

 Sung. 1855, 600. (Compiled.)— BAino, H. N. A. 1857, 41^2. (Califarnia, &c.)— Coor. & gucKi., 

 P. B. R. Bep. zii, 18,'>0, Muiti.u. 100, 137. 



VipodoMgtpliUUpirii, OnAY, Am. Joarn. Sci. xl)i, 1843, 335 ; List. Momm. Dr. Mns. 1843, liW.— GuiR., Cut. 

 Bones Ur. Mas. 1803, 173.— Gray, Proe. Zoul. Soc. 1868, 300. 



Dipodomi)! pUlippi, ScniMZ, Syn. Maniiu. ii, 1845, 03. (Compiled from Gray.) 



Dipadomsi pkilHppM, AuD. & Bach., Q. N. A. iii, 1853, 137, pi. 130. (From Gray's type.) 



ViiKidumgii pkitlippii, Baiiid, P. R. R. Rep. x, 1850, Williamson's Route, Mauini. 83. (I'oea Creek, Cain.) 



Dipoiomyi pkiUipii, CouES, Proo. Phila. Acad. 1875, :<85. 



UaencotM kalUeu$, Waonkr, Ait:h. f. Natnrg. 1840, 176 ; "Abb. K. Baier. > Vad. xxii, 1848, 310, pi. vii " 



OiKBKL, Sung. 1855, 599. (Compiled.) 



Dipoiomjft agilit, Gahd., Proo. Acad. Nnt. Sci. Pbila. iv, 1848, 77.t (Los Angeles, Cal.)— Gamo., Ann. klag. 

 Nut. Hist, iii, 1849, 318 (Bame).-LKC., Proc. Acail. Nut. Sci. Pbila. vi, itSOS, 334.— AuD. & 

 Bach., Quad. N. A. iii, 1854, 3:19. (Compiled.)— Gikb., Sung. 1856, COO. (Compiled.)— Bl>., 

 Proo. Aca<l. Nat. Sci. Pbila. 1855, 334 (San Divgo, Cal.) ; M. N. A. 1857, 414, pi. 0, f. 1.— GuAV, 

 P.Z.S.1868,301. 



TtipoioMft heerwianKi, LrC., Proc Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 185.3, 334. (Sierra Nevada.) 



Dipodorngt keermannii, Baird, Mnmm. N. Am. 1857, 415. (Compiled.) 



l>ipodomt> kermamnii, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1868, 801. (Compiled.) 



l>iliodomgtwagi>eri,t LkC, Proo. Acnd. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1853, 334.— Bd., M. N. A. 1857, itf:. (Compileil.)— 

 Gray, P. Z. 8. 1868, 301. (Compiled.) 



Habitat. — PaciGc region at large, from Washington Territory to Capo 

 St. Lucas ; Nevad*' ; and portions of Mexico (Real del Monte, Phillipn). 

 Specimens examined from Fort Walla- Walla, Cupe St. Lucas, and numerous 

 localities nearly throughout Upper and Lower California. 



* Tbis name is found rarinosly spelled by authors, as well as by Gray himself ; bat if, as stated by 

 Gray, the species was named nttor Juhu Phillips, the rendition here adopted appvnm to ho oorreot. 



t Special paper : Description of Two New Califurnian Quadrnpeds [D. agilis and Mas califonil- 

 ons]. < lorn. cit. pp. 77, 78. (Also, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (am. df. pp. 318, 319, with aome literal modiHca- 

 tion of title.) 



t The ascribed locality is nnqnestinnably erroueons. The label " Jimes Beed, South Carolina", 

 like that on some other spc mens of varioni: animals I have aeon, indicates the dooor and Ait rmUeooe, 



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