United States National Museum - si-pddr - Smithsonian Institution

MICROTUS. 89
Arvicola (Mynomes) nanus Merriani. Biological Survey collet'tion.
North AiiHM-. Fauna, No. r>, pp. 62-63, pi. 2, figs. 5-6, July 30, 1891.
= Microtus nanus (Alcrriani). f^ee Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XI, p. 67,
Ifllf.
April 21, 1897.
Skill and skull. Adult female (not male, as in original
description). Pahsimeroi Mountains, Idaho, September 1(>, 1890.
Collected by Dr. C. Hart Merriam and V. Bailey. Orioinal number
1809.
Well-made skin in good condition; skull perfect.
Microtus pinetorum nemoralis Bailey. Biological Survey collection.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XII, pp. 89-90, April 30, 1898.
87246. Skin and skull. Adult female. Stilvvell, Boston Mountains,
Oklalioma. April T, 1897. Collected by J. A. Loring. Original
luunber 3905.
Well-made skin in good condition; skull perfect.
Microtus nevadensis Baile}'. Biological Survey collection.
Ifl^
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XII, i)p. 86-87, April 30, 1898.
!• Skin and skull. Adult male (not female, as in original descrip-
tion). Ash jNleadows, IVye County, Nevada. March 2, 1891. Col-
lected bv E. W. Nelson. Original number 577.
Well-made skin in good condition; skull perfect, f^xcept for broken audital
bulLe and left coronoid process.
Arvicola occidentalis Peale.
r. 8. Exploring Expedition, Mammalia and Ornithology, p. 45, 1848.
= Microtus townsendi ( Bachman). See Bailey, North Amer. Fauna, No. 17, p. 46,
June 6, 1900.
VVsV' Skin and skull. Puget Sound, Washington. U. S. Exploring
Expedition, 1838 to 1842. Collected by T. R. Peale. Skin cat-
alogued 1872; skull, 1860.
Poorly made skin, tail not skinned out. It has somewhat tlie look of having
been in alcohol at one time. Some of the hair has slipped from each side,
esjjecially the right. Skull fairly good for an old specimen; right zygoma miss-
ing and both bullic and both pterygoids broken, coronoid proce.