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Ge)il. Char. Two-thirds of tail white; dentition weak. 



Color. Above dull rufous, hairs posteriorly tipped with dusky; 

 top of head and cheeks mixed with black; black spot above eye; 

 thighs and fore legs yellowish rufous; beneath yellowish buff; tail, 

 basal third like body, remainder white. 



Measurements. Hind foot (skin), 53; none other given. 



234. Cynomys mexicanus Merriam. 



Cynomys mexicanus Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vii, 1892, p. 

 157. Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. 8c W . Indies, F. C. M. 

 Pub., IV, Pt. I, 1904. p. 156. Zool. Ser. 

 Mexican' Pr.\irie-dog. 



Type locality. La Ventura, State of Coahuila, Mexico. 

 Geogr. Distr. Northern and eastern Mexico. 



Genus 54. >lMi'inot:i. W<M>(l<-lni<'ks. 



* Marmota Frisch, Xatur-Syst. vierfiiss. Thiere, in Tabellen, 9, 1775. 



Type ? 



Miis Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 1758, p. 60. (Part.) 



Glis Erxleb., Syst. Regn. Anim., 1777, p. 358. (Part, nee Bris- 



son, 1762.) 

 Arctomys Schreb., Saugth., iv, 1780, pp. 721-743, pis. ccvii- 



ccxi. 

 Lipura Illig., Prodr. Syst. Mamm. et Av., 181 1, p. 95. 



235. Marmota monax (Linnaeus). 



Mns monax Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 1758, p. 60. 

 Arctomys monax Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 11, 

 1901, p. 105, fig. 24. Zool. Ser, 



WOODCHUCK. 



Type locality. Maryland. 



Geogr. Distr. From New York to Georgia, west to the Dakotas, 

 intergrading in the Alleghanian and Canadian faunae with next three 

 species. 



((. ,MaTin(tt(i Diouiix- jg/if(ri(.s (Bangs). 



Arctotnys ignavtis Bangs, Proc. N. Eng. Zool. Club, 1899, p. 13. 

 Arctomys monax ignavtis Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. 

 Pub., II, 1901, p. 105. Zool. Ser. 



*Marmota of Frisch includes the following species: Miis alpinus, Mar- 

 mota polonica, Cricetus, Europe; and Gcrboa, Africa. 



