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
_Specimens examined_, 15 as follows: 7 km. S and 2 km. W San
Fernando, 8; 36 km. N and 10 km. W Ciudad Victoria, 1 km. E
El Barretal, on Rio Purificacion, 1; 70 km. [by highway] S
Ciudad Victoria and 2 km. W El Carrizo, 6.
_Remarks._--Most of these mice were taken in densely vegetated fallow
fields, where both grass and brush were found. Many of the mice were
captured at their burrow openings, some of which were found to be
plugged and others not plugged.
~Reithrodontomys fulvescens intermedius~ Allen
Fulvous Harvest Mouse
_Reithrodontomys mexicanus intermedius_ Allen, Bull. Amer.
Mus. Nat. Hist., 7:136, May 21, 1895. (Type from
Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas.)
_Reithrodontomys fulvescens intermedius_ Howell, N. Amer.
Fauna, 36:47, June 5, 1914.
_Specimen examined_, 1 from 70 km. [by highway] S Ciudad
Victoria and 2 km. W El Carrizo.
~Baiomys taylori taylori~ (Thomas)
Pygmy Mouse
_Hesperomys (Vesperimus) taylori_ Thomas, Ann. and Mag. Nat.
Hist, ser. 5, 19:66, January, 1887. (Type from San Diego,
Duval County, Texas.)
_Baiomys taylori_ Mearns, Mamm. Mex. Bound., Bull. 56:381,
April 13, 1907.
_Specimens examined_, 2 from 70 km. [by highway] S Ciudad
Victoria and 2 km. W El Carrizo.
_Remarks._--Specimens were captured in runways in dense grass and weeds
at the edge of a corn field.
~Peromyscus leucopus texanus~ (Woodhouse)
White-footed Mouse
_Hesperomys texana_ Woodhouse, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci.
Philadelphia, 6:242, 1853. (Type probably from the vicinity
of Mason, Mason County, Texas.)
_Peromyscus leucopus texanus_ Osgood, N. Amer. Fauna,
28:127, April 17, 1909.
_Specimens examined_, 8 as follows: 7 km. S and 2 km. W San
Fernando, 1; 12 km. N and 4 km. W Ciudad Victoria, 2; 70 km.
[by highway] S Ciudad Victoria and 2 km. W El Carrizo, 4.
~Peromyscus ochraventer~ new species
Brown-bellied Wood Mouse
_Type._--Female, adult, skin and skull; no. 36958, Univ.
Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist.; 70 km. [by highway] S Ciudad
Victoria and 6 km. W of the [Pan-American] highway [at El
Carrizo], Tamaulipas, Mexico; 12 January 1950; obtained by
William J. Schaldach, Jr., original no. 566.
_Range._--Known only from the type locality; probably found
in other localities along the humid, east face of the Sierra
Madre Oriental in Tamaulipas.
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