. The Canadian field-naturalist. 490 The Canadian Field-Naturalist Vol. 88. Figure 1. Distribution of the bushy-tailed wood rat showing range extensions. the National Museum and the specimen was identified as A', c. driiminondii\ their catalogue number for that specimen is 42799. In the fall of 1972, big-game guide Stewart Sinclair-Smith killed a bushy-tailed wood rat south of Little Dal Lake (62°40' N, 126°42 1/2' W). Around that time he also found the remains of another wood rat in the Silverberry (South Redstone) River area north of Little Dal Lake (62'40' N, 126'=45' W). Simmons has a phot
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 490 The Canadian Field-Naturalist Vol. 88. Figure 1. Distribution of the bushy-tailed wood rat showing range extensions. the National Museum and the specimen was identified as A', c. driiminondii\ their catalogue number for that specimen is 42799. In the fall of 1972, big-game guide Stewart Sinclair-Smith killed a bushy-tailed wood rat south of Little Dal Lake (62°40' N, 126°42 1/2' W). Around that time he also found the remains of another wood rat in the Silverberry (South Redstone) River area north of Little Dal Lake (62'40' N, 126'=45' W). Simmons has a photograph of the wood rat Sinclair-Smith killed, which accompanied a letter from his date 10 October 1972. The sites of these observations are approximately 75, 200, and 210 miles north-northwest of Fort Liard, the location of the first published report of a bushy- tailed wood rat from the Northwest Territories (Gold- man 1910). The Little Dal Lake and Silverberry River sites are approximately 225 miles southeast of the record recently reported from ""Sven Lake" by Martell and Jasper (1974). Figure 1 shows the distribution and the range extensions of the bushy-tailed wood rat. Literature Cited Goldman, E. A. 1910. Revision of the wood rats of the genus Neotoma. North American Fauna 31: 1-124. Hall, E. R. and K. R. Kelson. 1959. The mammals of North America. Volume IL Ronald Press Company, New York. 1083 pp. Martell, A. M. and J. N. Jasper. 1974. A northern range extension for the Bushy-tailed V/ood Rat, Neotoma cinerea (Ord). Canadian Field-Naturalist 88: 348. George W. Scotter' Norman M. Simmons^ 'Canadian Wildlife Service Environment Canada Edmonton, Alberta ^Canadian Wildlife Service Environment Canada Fort Smith, Northwest Territories Received 14 May. 1974 Accepted 22 July, 1974. 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 p
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