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Aplodontia rufa californica Peters. The mountains of California; assumed 
to be the Sierra Nevada; specimens from Blue Canyon regarded as typical. 
, (p. 473) 
Aplodontia rufa nigra Taylor. Point Arena, Mendocino County, California. 
(p. 479) 
Aplodontia rufa phaea Merriam, C. H. Point Reyes, Marin County, Cali- 
fornia. 
(p. 480) 
5. ACCOUNTS OF SPECIES 
Aplodontia rufa rufa (Rafinesque) 
Brown Aplodontia 
Sewellel Lewis and Clark (1814), p. 176. 
Sewewell [= Sewellel] Lesson (1827), p. 240. 
Ground Rat Douglas (1836), p. 101. 
Arctomys brachyurus? Douglas (1836), p. 101. 
Anisonya? rufa Rafinesque (1817), p. 45. 
Anisonyx? rousse Desmarest (1822), p. 330. 
“*Anisonia rufa?’’ Minding (1829), p. 86. 
Arctomys rufa, Harlan (1825), pp. 308-309. 
Anisonyx roux Lesson (1827), p. 240. 
Aplodontia leporina Richardson (1829a), pp. 888-337. 
Apludontia leporina, Fischer (1830), p. 398 [= error for 598]. 
H{aplodon]. leporinus Wagler (1830), p. 22. 
Apluodontia leporina Richardson (1837), p. 150. 
Aplodontie léporine Gervais (1854), p. 364. 
H{aploodon]. leporinus, Lilljeborg (1866), p. 41. 
Haplodon rufus Coues (1877b), p. 557. 
Haplodonta rufa, Cope (1883), p. 55. 
Aplodontia rufa, Merriam (1886), pp. 312-328. 
A[plodontia]. rufus, Price (1894), p. 328. 
Aplodontia major (part) Merriam (1897), p. 219. 
H{aplodontia]. rufa, Elliot (1899), p. 251. 
Aplodontia chryseola Kellogg (1914), pp. 295-296. 
Aplodontia rufa grisea Taylor (1916c), pp. 497-499. 
Type Locality—It is well known that Rafinesque’s deseription of 
“*Anisonyx? rufa’? was based entirely upon the Sewellel of Lewis 
and Clark. As cited by Rafinesque the type locality is the ‘‘neigh- 
borhood of the Columbia River.’’ It is now known that two subspecies 
of Aplodontia occur on the Columbia River. The coastal form 
deseribed as Aplodontia pacifica is found at Astoria, while an inland 
form commonly known as A. rufa oceurs in the foothill country about 
Mount Hood. The original description of rwfa is not diagnostic as 
between the coastal and the inland forms. Doubtless Lewis and Clark 
saw Indian robes made from the skins of both. There would be no 
mes. 
