. Mammals of the Mexican boundary of the United States : a descriptive catalogue of the species of mammals occurring in that region; with a general summary of the natural history, and a list of trees . Mammals; Mammals; Trees; Trees; Natural history; Natural history. 488 BULLETIN 56, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. Description.—Size, small. Lengthj 300 mm.; tail vertebrae, 125; hind foot, 30; ear from crown, 27. Ears, large. Pelage remarkably long, soft, and silky. Color above ochraceous buff; head smoke gray; under parts, white, sometimes faintly washed with pinkish buff; tail, bicolor, dusky
. Mammals of the Mexican boundary of the United States : a descriptive catalogue of the species of mammals occurring in that region; with a general summary of the natural history, and a list of trees . Mammals; Mammals; Trees; Trees; Natural history; Natural history. 488 BULLETIN 56, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. Description.—Size, small. Lengthj 300 mm.; tail vertebrae, 125; hind foot, 30; ear from crown, 27. Ears, large. Pelage remarkably long, soft, and silky. Color above ochraceous buff; head smoke gray; under parts, white, sometimes faintly washed with pinkish buff; tail, bicolor, dusky above^ white below. Cranial and dental characters.—Skull light, with remarkably large tympanic bullae. RemarTcs.—On the Mexican Line this beautiful species has been found only at Yuma, on the Colorado River. NEOTOMA FUSCIPES MA- CROTIS (Thomas). SAN DIEGO WOOr-KAT. Neotoma macrotis Thomas, Ann. Hist.,6th Ser., XII, Sept., 1893, pp. 234, 235 (from San Diego, Cali- fornia; original description). Neotoma macrotis simplex True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mua.,XVII, 1894, p. 354 (advance sheet issued June 27, 1894). (A pale interior form). Neotoma fuscipes macrotis, Mee- EIAM, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1894, p. 242.—Mil- lee and Rehn, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XXS, No. 1, Dec. 27, 1901, p. 104 (Syst. Eesults Study N. Am. Mam. to close of 1900). [Neotoma fuscipes] macrotis, Elliot, Field Col. Mus., Zool. Ser., II, 1901, p. 159 (Synop. Mam. N. Am.). Type-locality. — San Diego, California. (Type, skin and skull, in the British Museum.) Geographical range.—Pacific Coast Tract of southern and Lower California; inhabits the Sonoran Zone. Description.—Size, rather large. Length, 370 mm.; tail verte- brae, 170; hind foot, 35; ear from crown, 25; Skull, 47 by 25. Above russet-drab, mixed with blackish; head and limbs mouse-gray; feet (fig. 1206 and c) with the usual white colx)r more or less replaced by dusky or blackish down to the toes; under surface, white (except t
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