312 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES  [Proc. 4TH Serr. 
Range—Upper and Lower Sonoran zones west of the desert 
divides, from the Mexican line in the San Diegan district north 
through the coast region into Monterey and San Benito 
counties; also in western foothills of extreme southern Sierra 
Nevada north as far as Porterville, Tulare County (Goldman, 
N. Amer. Fauna, 31, 1910, p. 44; Mus. Vert. Zool.). 
Neotoma intermedia gilva Rhoads 
Banning Wood Rat 
Original description—Neotoma imtermedia gilva Rhoads, 
Amer. Nat., 28, January, 1894, p. 70. 
Type locality—Banning, Riverside County, California. 
Synonym—Neotoma desertorum sola Merriam, Proc. Biol. 
Soc. Wash., 9, July 2, 1894, p. 126 (type from San Emigdio, 
Kern County, California) ; Yellow Wood Rat. 
Range—Arid Upper and Lower Sonoran zones along the 
eastern edge of the main range of N. 1. intermedia, from Stan- 
ley, Fresno County, southeast to the Mexican line, and east 
through the Tehachapi region to the valley of the South Fork 
of the Kern River; the range of gilva thus lies irregularly be- 
tween that of intermedia and that of N. 1. desertorum (Mus. 
Vert. Zool.; Goldman, N. Amer. Fauna, 31, 1910, pp. 45, 46). 
Neotoma intermedia desertorum Merriam 
Desert Wood Rat 
Original description—Neotoma desertorum Merriam, Proc. 
Biol. Soc. Wash., 9, July 2, 1894, pp. 125, 126. 
Type locality—Furnace Creek, Death Valley, Inyo County, 
California. i 
Synonym—Neotoma bella Bangs, Proc. New Eng. Zool. 
Club, 1, July 31, 1899, pp. 66, 67 (type from Palm Springs, 
Riverside County, California). 
Range—Lower and Upper Sonoran zones on the southeast- 
ern deserts, from the Mexican line north through the Inyo 
region to the head of Owens Valley in Mono County, and in 
extreme eastern Lassen County; west southerly to the east 
base of the San Jacinto Mountains, in Riverside County, and 
to Antelope Valley, in northern Los Angeles County (Gold- 
man, N. Amer. Fauna, 31, 1910, p. 78; Mus. Vert. Zool.). 
