_Diagnosis._--Size large for the species; dorsum Olive-Brown in darkest series to Buffy Brown with tones of Fawn Color in the palest series; guard hairs of dorsum black-tipped, gray basally (in some specimens, guard hairs gray-tipped with subterminal black band, and gray base); underfur of dorsum black-tipped with subterminal band of fawn to buff, Neutral Gray basally; face and head paler than back because of greater number of fawn-colored and buff-colored hairs; hairs on throat and chin white to base; venter and flanks Pale Olive-Buff in palest series to Gray (Pale Gull Gray) in darkest series; individual hairs of venter tipped with white to buff, basally Gray (Dark Gull Gray); forefeet and hind feet white to gray with flesh-colored undertones; tail faintly bicolored, individual hairs above black, below white; nasals flared anteriorly; zygoma and zygomatic plate thick. Average and extreme external and cranial measurements for 8 adults from Armeria, Colima, are as follows: total length, 125.5 (115-135); length of tail vertebrae, 47.5 (42-54); length of body, 75.6 (68-81); length of hind foot, 16.5 (16-17); occipitonasal length, 20.3 (19.8-20.7); zygomatic breadth, 10.7 (10.3-11.1); postpalatal length, 7.4 (7.1-7.7); least interorbital breadth, 4.0 (3.9-4.1); length of incisive foramina, 4.3 (4.1-4.5); length of rostrum, 7.3 (6.9-7.6); breadth of braincase, 9.8 (9.4-10.0); depth of cranium, 7.1 (6.7-7.2); alveolar length of maxillary tooth-row, 3.4 (3.3-3.6); for photographs of skull, see Plate 1_e_, and Plate 3_e_. _Comparisons._--For comparisons with _B. m. brunneus_, _B. m. infernatis_, and _B. m. pallidus_, see accounts of those subspecies. From _B. m. nigrescens_, _B. m. musculus_ differs in: dorsum paler throughout (less of blackish brown); region of face and ears paler, more buff and fawn-colored hairs rather than blackish-brown to grayish hairs; vibrissae paler; venter paler, less dark gray and less of sooty-colored undertones, tips of hairs whitish to pale Olive-Buff rather than light gray at tips becoming darker basally; forefeet and hind feet paler, whitish to pale buff-color with flesh-colored undertones, not sooty-colored to dark brown; tail paler below; nasals flaring outward, not tapering toward midline at anteriormost point; zygoma more massive; larger in external and cranial dimensions.