United States National Museum - si-pddr - Smithsonian Institution
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RKITHRODONTOMYS. 115<br />
:i281. Skull. Between Janos and San Luis Springs, State of Sonora,<br />
Mexico, near l)ordcr of (Jrant Count}', iSew Mexico. Collected by<br />
Dr. C. B. Kenuerly, under the command of Maj. ^Y. II. Kniory.<br />
U. S. A. Catalogued November, 1855.<br />
Skull perfect except for loss of both malar bones. There should he a skin,<br />
No. 1039, which can not.be found.<br />
No type specified, but Baird's description is evidently based upon the above<br />
specimen, de<strong>si</strong>gnated by number. The skull of the above is figured. He had<br />
one other specimen, an alcoholic, now lost. His brief diagno<strong>si</strong>s says, "Hind<br />
foot near .70." No. 1039, in the table of measurements, is put down as .68,<br />
while 1040, the alcoholic, is .50. Evidently the diagno<strong>si</strong>s was based on No.<br />
1039. In Report Ignited <strong>States</strong> and ^lexican Boundary Survey, Part 2, page 43,<br />
1859, No. 1039 is alone spoken of.<br />
Reithrodontomys merriami Allen. Biological Survey collection.<br />
Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hi.«t., VII, pp. 114, 119-120, May 20, 1895.<br />
Hill- Skin and skull. Adult male. Austin Ba3'oa, near Alvin,<br />
Brazoria County, Texas. March 15, 1892. Collected by W. Lloyd.<br />
Original number 1162.<br />
Well-made skin in good condition; skull lacking posterior half and entire<br />
under<strong>si</strong>de of brain case.<br />
Reithrodontomys microdon Merriani. Biological Survey collection.<br />
Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., HI, pp. 548-549, November 29, 1901.<br />
76923. Skin and skull. Adidt female. Todos Santos, Guatemala.<br />
December 31, 1895. Collected by E. W. Nelson and E. A. (Goldman.<br />
Original number 8977.<br />
"Well-made skin in good condition; skull perfect.<br />
Reithrodon montanus Baird.<br />
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., Vll, p. 335, this paper was reptirted favorably<br />
for j)ublication April 24, 1855.<br />
= Reithrodontomys montanus (Baird). See Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.,<br />
V, p. 80, April 28, 1893.<br />
,Vff 6 • Mounted skin, and skull. Near the upper end of the San Luis<br />
Valley, Saguache County, Colorado. August 29 or 30, 1853-54.<br />
Collected by Mr. Kreutzfeldt, on Capt. E. G. Beckwitlrs expedi-<br />
tion from Westport, Missouri, to the Pacific coast in 1853-54.<br />
. (The.-^e data are taken from J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat.<br />
Hist., VII, pp. 124 and 125, May 21, 1895.) Catalogued January<br />
17, 1855.<br />
Mounted skin in rather poor condition; body doubled up; both fore legs<br />
mis<strong>si</strong>ng. Both hind legs i>re.