Mammals from Tamaulipas, MexicoBaker, Rollin H. (Rollin Harold)
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Mammals from Tamaulipas, Mexico
Baker, Rollin H. (Rollin Harold)
Mammals -- Mexico -- Tamaulipas; Rodents
_Remarks._--These three specimens have proportionately longer tails
than typical _P. o. pallidus_ from central Veracruz; total length and
length of tail of two adult males are 575, 295, and 568, 290
respectively.
This marsupial has been previously unrecorded from Tamaulipas or from
so northward a locality. The four-eyed opossum evidently ranges
northward along the east face of the Sierra Madre Oriental within the
humid division of the Upper Tropical Life-zone. These animals, all
males, were taken in steel traps baited with the bodies of skinned mice
or birds. Sets were made along well-used trails leading from a densely
vegetated arroyo into a corn field through openings in a fence of
roughly piled logs. The elevation of this locality is approximately
2500 feet.
~Desmodus rotundus murinus~ Wagner
Vampire Bat
_D[esmodus] murinus_ Wagner, Schreber's Saeugthiere, Suppl.,
1:377, 1840. (Type from Mexico.)
_Desmodus rotundus murinus_ Osgood, Field Mus. Nat. Hist.,
publ. 155, zool. ser., 10:63, January 10, 1912.
_Specimens examined_, 9 as follows: 12 km. W and 8 km. N
Ciudad Victoria, 2500 ft., 3; 70 km. [by highway] S Ciudad
Victoria and 6 km. W of the [Pan-American] highway [at El
Carrizo], 6.
_Remarks._--Vampire bats were taken at two caves. At the cave called
"Los Troncones", 12 kilometers west and 8 kilometers north of Ciudad
Victoria, seven bats were shot down; three were saved. The second cave,
south of Ciudad Victoria, was considerably damper than the first.
Vampires were found in a small side chamber; nine bats were knocked
down. No other kinds of bats were present in either cave.
~Sylvilagus floridanus connectens~ (Nelson)
Florida Cottontail
_Lepus floridanus connectens_ Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc.
Washington, 17:105, May 18, 1904. (Type from Chichicaxtle,
Veracruz, Mexico.)
_Sylvilagus floridanus connectens_ Lyon and Osgood, Catal.
Type spec. Mamm. U. S. Nat. Mus., Bull. 62:32, January 28,
1909.
_Specimens examined_, 2 from 70 km. [by highway] S. Ciudad
Victoria and 2 km. W El Carrizo.
~Sciurus aureogaster aureogaster~ F. Cuvier
Red-bellied Squirrel
[_Sciurus_, by implication] _aureogaster_ F. Cuvier, Hist.
nat. mammiferes, vol. 6, livr. 59, pl. with text, September,
1829. Binomial published at end of work only, vol. 7, tabl.
generale et methodique, p. 4, 1842. (Type from "California"
= eastern Mexico.)
_Specimens examined_, 13 as follows: 43 km. S Ciudad
Victoria, 1; 70 km. [by highway] S Ciudad Victoria, and 6
km. W of [Pan-American] highway [at El Carrizo], 3; 70 km.
[by hwy.] S Victoria and 2 km. W El Carrizo, 9.
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