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VERTEBRATA. 
HAPALOTIS ALBIPES. 
Q-enus NEOTOMA : Neotoma. — This includes the Florida Rat, N, Floridano : it is of a lead 
color above and white below. It is eight inches long, partially nocturnal in its habits, is harm- 
less and inoffensive, and lives in burrows, feeding on fruits and vegetables. It is found in the 
Southern and Southwestern States. 
THE WHITE-BELLIED HTDK0MT3. 
There are several other species of Neotoma, as the Bush Rat, K, Mexicana, found in Lower 
California; the Neotoma Kescipes, size of the Norway Rat, found in California; and the Rocky 
M'ouNTAiN Rat, JSF. cinerea, found on the Pacific coast. 
