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BULLETIN 56, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Measurements of S7 specimens of Neotoma iniermedia. 



o American Museum of Natural History ' Head and body, 194 mm. c Head and body, 188 mm. 



NEOTOMA INTERMEDIA GILVA Rhoads. 



BANNINO WOOD-RAT. 



Neotoma intermedia gilvaHiio ADS, American Naturalist, XXVIII, Jan. 1, 1894, p. 69 

 (original description).— Miller and Rehn, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XXX, 

 No. 1, Dec. 27, 1901, p 106 (Syst. Results Study N. Am. Mam. to close of 1900). 



[Nentomia intermedia] gilva, Elliot, Field Col. Mus., Zool. Ser., II, 1901, p. 162 

 (Synop. Mam, N. Am.). 



Type-locality. — Banning, San Bernardino County, California. 



Geographical range.— how ev Sonoran Zone of the Western Desert 

 Tract. 



Description. — Similar to Neotoma intermedia except in color, but 

 slightly smaller. Upper parts- cinereous-buff; under parts white; tail 

 buffy all round at base. 



