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80 MICROTUS.
Neofiber alleni Tiuo.
ScitMKv, IV, p. ;54, July 11, 1S84.
=Microtus alleni (True). See Miller, North Anier. Fauna, No. 12, p. 9, July 23,
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^kiti". viscera in alcohol, and skeleton. Adult male. Gcor
giana, Rrevard County, Florida. Collected l)y William Wittfeld.
Received in Museum December 24, 1S83. Catalogued January 17,
1884; skeleton June, 1885.
The whole specimen was originally in alcohol. It was then skinned, mounted,
and placed on exhil)ition. The skeleton was prepared and the viscera put in
alcohol. The mounted specimen has since been taken down and made into a
study skin which is well made ami in good condition except for a small naked
spot on the right hip and the loss of many toenails. It is much lighter than
normal, from exposure to light and probaljly from the effects of alcohol. The
skeleton is in excellent condition and on exiiibition in the Division of Compara-
tive Anatomy. The viscera, both abdominal and thoracic, are well preserved.
Type not designated by number in the original description. The above specimen
is said by Dr. F. W. True and F. A. Lucas to be the original specimen,
which was unique at the time of describing.
Arvicola (Mynomes) alticolus Merriam. Biological Survey coll.
North Amer. Fauna, No. 3, pp. 67-69, pi. 5, figs. 1-2; pi. 6, figs. 1-4, Septem])er
4, 1890.
=Microtus alticolus (Merriam). See Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. llist., VII, p.
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219, June 29, 1895.
Skin and skull. Adult female. Little Spring, San Francisco
Mountain, Arizona. July 31, 1889. Collected by Dr. C. Hart
Merriam and V. Bailey. Original number 243.
Well-made skin in good condition; skull perfect except for perforation in left
audital bulla and repaired fractures of frontals and parietals.
Microtus angusticeps Bailey. Biological Survey collection.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., NIT, p. S(>, April 30, 1898.
nSffs- Skin and skull. Adult male. Crescent City, California, ffune
16, 1889. Collected by Dr. T. S. Palmer. Original number 151.
^Vell-mad(' skin in gdod condition; skull perfect.
Arvicola apella Le Conte.
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. I'hila., VI, p. 405, this pajHT was favorably reported for
publication October 25, 1853.
= Microtus pinetorum scalopsoides ( .\udubon and Bachman). See Batchelder,
Troc. I'.ost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XXVII, p. 187, ()ctol)er, 1896.
4714. Skin with skidl inside. Pennsylvania. One of Major J. E. Le
Conte's collection. Catalogued April 13, 1801.
Skin poorly made up, but well j)reserved.
This specimen not designated by number as a type. The specimen bears two
old labels each marked "apella," as well as one of Coues' labels calling it the
type. In Monographs of North American Rodentia, pages 223 and 224, Coueg
refers to No. 4714 as the typ)e of Arricola apella Le Conte.