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Diego; fourteen inches. There is much doubt whether it is 
indigenous. 
The long-tailed mouse (Reithrodon longicauda) ; coast near 
San Francisco; five inches; dark-brown. 
Gambel’s .mouse (Hesperomys gambelii); from Tomales 
B.y to Kern River; five inches; glossy-brown. 
Boyle’s mouse (Hesperomys boylit) ; valley of the American 
River; eight inches; glossy-brown. 
Californian mouse (esperomys californicus); Santa Clara 
valley; six inches; sooty-brown. 
Desert-mouse (Hesperomys eremieus); Colorado Desert; 
five inches; grayish-yellow. 
The bush rat (Meotoma mexicana); near San Diego and in 
the Colorado desert; thirteen inches; yellowish brown. 
The Neotoma fuscipes, 1 rat; coast valleys, from 38° to 
40°; fifteen inches; reddish above. 
The Arvicola montana, a mouse; near Petaluma, Monte- 
rey, and Lost River; six inches; yellowish brown. : 
The long-faced mouse (Arvicola longirostris); Pit River 
valley; six inches; yellowish brown. 
The Californian ground-mouse (Arvicola edax); coast val- 
leys south of San Francisco; six inches; yellowish brown. 
The Arvicola californica, a mouse much like the species 
last named. 
The Oregon mouse (Arvicola oregona) ; near Tanales Bay ; 
four inches; yellowish brown. 
The Oregon mole (Scalops tounsendti) is found near the 
bay of San Francisco, and perhaps in other parts of the state. 
It is six or seven inches long, nearly black in color, with faint- 
purplish or sooty-black reflections in the hair. 
§ 93. The Deer Family.—The American elk (Cervus eana- 
densis) is found in California as well as in many other parts 
of the continent. The animal is nearly as large as a horse, 
and has some resemblance to it in general shape, though 
smaller, and slimmer in the head, neck, and legs. Its length 
from the nose to the tail is seven feet; its height five feet; its 
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