137 



ranging in length from length of body to a little longer than head and 

 body; pelage soft, clear, glossy, with but few bristly hairs; feet and under 

 parts white or whitish ; body and tail more or less distinctly bicolor ; up- 

 per margin of the orbit sharp, but not extended into a crest. 



Hesperomys (Vespeeimus) leucopus Coues. 



WUITK-FOOTED MOHSE ; DkBR MoUSB. 



1775. Mvbs sylvatkus] var., Erxleben, Syst. An., i, 1775, 390 (based on 

 New York var. of Pennant). 



1792. Mus agrarius var. americanus, "Kerr's Linnseus, 1792, 231" (based 

 on Pennant). 



1818. Musculus leucopus, Rafinesque, Amer. Monthly Mag,, iii, 1818, 446. 

 . 1822. Mus leucopus, Desmarest, Mamm., ii, 1822, 307. — Harlan, Fn. Amer., 

 1825, 151.— Griffith, Anim. Kingd., v, 1827, 223— Fischer, Syn- 

 opsis, 1829, 326 — DeKay, N. Y. ZooL, i, 1842, 82, pi. 23, fig. 1. 

 — Aud. & Bach., Q. N. A., i, 1849, 300, pi. 46.— Thompson, Nat. 

 Hist. Vermont, 1853, 13. — Kennicott, Agric. Rep. U. S. Patent 

 Office for 1856 (1857), 99, pi. 10. 



1829. Mus sylvaticus var. novthoracensis, Fischer, Synopsis, 1829, 318 (New 



York variety). 



1830. Cricetus myoides, Gapper, Zool. Journ., v, 1830, 204, pi. 10 (Canada). 

 1839. Mus noveboracensis, Selys-Longchamps, Etudes de Microm, 1839, 67. 

 1849. Arvicola emmonsii, DeKay, Rep. Quad. Mass., 1840, 61. 



1843. Hesperomys maniculatus, Wagner, Weigmann's Archiv., 1843, ii, 

 141, and 1845, ii, 148; Abhand. Akad. Wissensch., v, pt. ii, 

 1848, 316 (Labrador). 



1843. Hesperomys polionoius, Wagner, Weigmann's Archiv., 1843, ii, 52 

 (Georgia). 



18£2. Hesperomys leucopus, LeConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., vi, 1852, 

 413.— Baird, M. N. A., 1857, 459.— Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 i, 1869, 227 (Massachusetts), and ii, 1870, 178 (Florida).— Dall., 

 Alaska and its Resources, 1870, 577. — Maximilian, Arch. Naturg., 

 xviii, 1862, pi. 4, f. 4 (penis-bone) ; Verz. N. Am. Saug., 1862, 

 156. — Jordan, Man. Vert., 1878, 31 ; and of most late writers. 



1853. Hesperomys campestris, LeConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., vi, 

 1853, 413 (New Jersey; type, No. 4726, Mus. Smiths.).— Aud. & 

 Bach., Q. N. A., iii, 1854, 295 (after LeConte).— Baird, M. N. A., 

 18o7, 485 (after LeConte). 



1853. Hesperomys texanus, Woodhouse, Proc. Acad. Nat. 'Sci., Phila., vi, 

 1853; 242; Sitgreave's Rep. Expl. Zufii River, 1853, 48, pi. 2 

 (El Paso, Tex. ; type. No. 2559, Mus. Smiths.).— Aiid. & Bach., 



