odontomys 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.

_Diagnosis._--Size medium (see measurements); upper parts
near Ochraceous Tawny (capitalized color terms after
Ridgway, Color Standards and Color Nomenclature, Washington,
D. C., 1912), brighter on sides and duller on back; cheeks,
sides of neck, shoulders and upper forelegs lighter, between
Ochraceous Buff and Ochraceous Orange; eye ring dark;
underparts light Cinnamon Buff, breast patch brighter; ears
dusky, sparsely covere