. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. MAMMALS OF THE MEXICAN BOUNDARY. 497 Colorado Desert, where we camped for several days, were numerous heaps of mussel shells, such as muskrats leave about their feeding grounds. Muskrats have long been known to inhabit the waters of the Colo- rado River, both above and below Ynma, and in a letter from Mr. Herbert Brown, dated Yuma, Arizona, November 18, 1900, I am informed that he had found them at Yuma. Measurements of 10 specimens of Film- zibethicus paUidus. Museum ; Locality. Date. 200 225 232 241 451 454 464 2343 2344
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. MAMMALS OF THE MEXICAN BOUNDARY. 497 Colorado Desert, where we camped for several days, were numerous heaps of mussel shells, such as muskrats leave about their feeding grounds. Muskrats have long been known to inhabit the waters of the Colo- rado River, both above and below Ynma, and in a letter from Mr. Herbert Brown, dated Yuma, Arizona, November 18, 1900, I am informed that he had found them at Yuma. Measurements of 10 specimens of Film- zibethicus paUidus. Museum ; Locality. Date. 200 225 232 241 451 454 464 2343 2344 2345 2346 CO L765 1768 1762 1767 Fori Verde, Arizona rum- 26 1885. Beaver Creek, Verde Valley, June 15 Fort Verde, Arizona inly 22 do Aug. I!1 Beaver Creek, Verde Valley, Sept. 17 L886. 2347 2348 12181 2349 1766 1763 1764 Fort Verde, Arizona. ....do ....do .. .do .do. June 4 Aim. 2;; A ut;. 28 Sept. 211 a American Museum of Natural History. b Skull in skin. cCotype. d Young of tli> FIBER ZIBETHICUS RIPENSIS Bailey. PECOS MUSKRAT. Fiber zibethicus ripensis Bailey, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XV, p. 119, June 2 1902(originaldescription).—Miller and Rkhx. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist.,XXXJ Aug. 27,1903, p. 91 (Syst. ResultsStudy X. Am. Mam. during the years L901 and 1902). Type-locality.—Pecos River at Carlsbad, formerly Eddy, Eddy County, New Mexico. Description.—Air. Vernon Bailey described this subspecies as fol- lows: Typt from the Rivera! Carlsbad (Eddy), New Mexico. No. 109012, V. S. National Museum, Biological Survey Collection, male ad. Co I Ice (cd July2o, 1001, by Vernon Bailex . Original No. 7757. General characters. Size small: color paler than in zibethicus, bui darker than in pattidus; skull narrow: incisors heavy. 30639—Xo. .56—07 M 32. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly re
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