1919] 



Dixon: BusJiy -tailed Wood Rats of California 



fact that skulls of specimens from the Panamint Mountains, Inyo 

 County, particularly those from Telescope Peak, near Death Valley, 

 show some of the features which have been given (Goldman, 1917) as 

 characterizing the race lucida, from Charleston Peak, within sight in 



! o Neotoma cinerea occidentalis 



MUSEUM OF VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY 

 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 



Fig. C. Map showing stations of occui'rence in California of Neotoma cinerea 

 cinerea and Neotoma cinerea occidentalis, as established by specimens examined 

 by the author. Assumed general range of the species, cinerea, outlined. 



southern Nevada. For instance, in the specimens from Telescope 

 Peak the zygomatic arches lie more nearlj^ parallel to the axis of the 

 skull than in typical cinerea. However, the bushy-tailed wood rats 

 of Telescope Peak are seemingly much more closely similar to cinerea, 

 the Sierra Nevadan form, than to lucida, and they are therefore 

 placed under the name cinerea. 



