BANGS : LAND MAMMALS OF FLORIDA AND GEORGIA. 185 
mens at Hursman’s Lake, Barrington, and Montgomery, Georgia, 
and I took a large series at St. Mary’s, Georgia. Of the form that 
occurs in peninsular Florida, that is intermediate between JY. jfori- 
dana typica and JY. jforidana rubida, I took eight at Micco, one at 
Oak Lodge, and fourteen at Gainesville, Florida, and have speci¬ 
mens from Citrus County, collected by F. L. Small. 
Neotoma florid ax a rubida subsp. nov. 
Type from Gibson, Louisiana, j old adult No. 2,872, collection 
of E. A. and O. Bangs. Collected, April 4, 1895, by F. L. Small. 
General characters. Larger than N. Jforidana typica ; hind foot 
larger; color much redder (less grayish and yellowish) with fewer 
black hairs in back. Tail less hairy and not so distinctly bicolored. 
No cranial differences, though the skull of JY. jforidana rubida is 
rather larger than that of JY. jforidana typica. 
Color. Adult, upper parts, dark cinnamon-russet, clearest on 
cheeks and sides, and somewhat intermixed with black hairs on top 
of head and along back. Under parts yellowish white, the hairs 
jilumbeous at base only along lower sides; whiskers mostly black, a 
few colorless; feet and hands white ; ears dusky; tail rather sparsely 
haired and indistinctly bicolored, reddish dusky above, slightly 
grayer below. 
Measurements. The type j old adult: total length, 403; tail 
vertebrae, 185; hind foot, 42. No. 2,871, old adult j topotype: 
total length, 422; tail vertebrae, 200; hind foot, 44. No. 2,873, 
old adult 9 topotype: total length, 425; tail vertebrae, 212; hind 
foot, 40. 
General remarks. Neotoma jforidana rubida replaces true JY. 
jforidana in the lower Mississippi Valley and probably the whole of 
western Florida. Specimens from all parts of the Florida peninsula 
are intermediate between the two forms, both in color and propor¬ 
tions, though they are usually rather nearer to JY. rubida than to 
JY. jforidana typica. 
In the spring of 1895 Mr. F. L. Small collected a large series of 
JY. rubida from several localities in southern Louisiana, but, unfor¬ 
tunately, all but four of them were burned in a fire that destroyed 
the house in which he lived. 
I have two specimens from Hancock County, Mississippi, which 
are exactly like the Louisiana ones. Through the kindness of Dr 
