208 NEOTOMA. 



Mount Pinos Wood Rat. 



Type locality. Mt. Pinos, Lockwood Valley, Ventura County, 

 California. 



Geogr. Distr. Southern California. Range unknown. 



Getil. Char. Size large, tail long, black above; general line of 

 upper parts buff. 



Color. Upper parts and sides buff, with base of hairs dark 

 plumbeous; limbs mixed plumbeous and buff; chin, throat, and 

 between thighs white; rest of under parts white to root of hairs, 

 save a line along the sides; hands and feet white; wrists and ankles 

 dusky; tail above and on sides dusky, beneath grayish white; ears 

 dark brown. 



Measurements. Total length, 380; tail vertebrae, 176; hind foot, 

 39.5; ear, 2^. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 46; Hensel, 38; zygomatic 

 width, 23; interorbital constriction, 5.6; width of braincase, 18; 

 length of nasals, 18.5; palatal length, 19; length of incisive foramen, 

 9; length of upper tooth row, 9; length of mandible, angle to in- 

 cisors, 23; length of lower tooth row, 8. 



482. Neotoma torquata Ward. 



Neotoma torquata Ward, Amer. Nat., xxv, 1891, p. 160. Elliot, 

 Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, F. C. M. Pub., iv, Pt. i, 

 1904, p. 279. Zool. Ser. 

 Collared Wood Rat. 



Type locality. Between Tetela del Volcan and Zacualpan Amil- 

 pas. State of Morelos, Mexico. 



Geogr. Distr. Known only from the type locality. 



483. Neotoma bryanti Merriam. 



Neotoma bryanti Merr., Amer. Nat., xxi, 1887, p. 191. Elliot, 

 Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, F. C. M. Pub., iv, Pt. i, 

 1904, p. 280. Zool. Ser. 

 Cerros Island Wood Rat. 



Type locality. Cerros or Cedros Island, Lower California, Mexico. 

 Geogr. Distr. Known only from the type locality. 



484. Neotoma micropus Baird. 



Neotoma micropus Baird, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1855, 

 p. 333. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 11, 1901, 

 p. 155. Zool. Ser. Id. Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, 

 F. C. M. Pub., IV, Pt. I, 1904, p. 281, figs. 45. XLiii. Zool. Ser. 



Neotoma micropus canescens Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 

 N. Y., 1891, p. 285. 



