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Sitomys megacephalus Rhoads, Proc. Acad. nat. sci. Phila., 1894, 
p. ‘254 (Woodville, Alabama). 
Peromyscus gossypinus Rhoads, Proc. Acad. nat. sci. Phila., 
1896, p. 189. 
Type locality. The Leconte plantation near Riceboro, Liberty 
County, Georgia. 
The cotton mouse inhabits the whole of eastern Georgia and 
northern Florida. It shades into the next form gradually. Speci¬ 
mens from New Berlin, Florida, are true P. gossypinus , while 
those from Carterville, Point Matanzas, etc., are but little different. 
Gainesville specimens, however, begin to approach P. palmarius. 
P. gossypinus is to be found in many different situations, but the 
best places to trap it are in the heavier swamps and hummocks and 
around the edges of cleared fields in hummock land. It is very 
rare or altogether wanting in the “ piny woods.” 
I have specimens from Hursman’s Lake, Pinetucky, Montgomery, 
Sterling, Barrington, and St. Mary’s, Georgia, and New Berlin, 
Burnside Beach, Carterville, Point Matanzas and Gainesville, 
Florida. (Those from the last point are not typical.) 
Peromyscus gossypinus palmarius Bangs. 
Peromyscus gossypinus palmarius Bangs, Proc. Biol. soc. 
Wash., 1896, p. 124. 
Type locality. Oak Lodge, east peninsula, opposite Micco, 
Brevard County, Florida. 
The Florida cotton mouse occupies the whole Florida penin¬ 
sula, north on the west to Citrus County and on the east to a little 
south of St. Augustine. It is a common animal and lives pretty 
much everywhere except in the piny woods and black-jack ridges 
where I have never taken it. 
P. gossypinus palmarius is distinguished from P. gossypinus 
typicus by being lighter in color, without so marked a dorsal stripe, 
and in having smaller hind feet. 
I have specimens from Citrus County, Oak Lodge, Micco, Jupiter 
Inlet, Miami, and Flamingo, Florida. 
Peromyscus anastasae sp. nov. 
Type from Point Romo, Anastasia Island, Florida, 9 adult No. 
7,179, coll, of E. A. and O. Bangs. Collected, Feb. 15, 1897, by 
O. Bangs. 
