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rom the locality given by Osgood, (c) Osgood indicated that the specimens he saw were not typical of _P. t. gilberti_ and (d) _P. m. gilberti_, geographically the nearest subspecies, is recorded otherwise no closer to Prineville than Grants Pass, approximately 175 miles southwest in southwestern Oregon. ~Sigmodon hispidus cienegae~ A. B. Howell J. A. Allen (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 5:28, March 16, 1893) listed as _Sigmodon hispidus arizonae_ Mearns one specimen from Granados, Sonora, at a time when _S. h. cienegae_ had not been named. We have examined the specimen (5389 AMNH) which has the skull inside and which lacks external measurements. It was taken on November 16, 1890, and is darker than specimens of _S. h. arizonae_ collected in September at Fort Verde, Arizona. The color is essentially as in specimens of _S. h. cienegae_ from Fairbank, Arizona (March-taken specimens). Because of this agreement in color and because of the geographic origin of the specimen from Granados, we refer the animal to _Sigmodon hispidus cienegae_. ~Sigmodon hispidus zanjonensis~ Goodwin Goodwin (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 79:169, May 29, 1942) listed four specimens from Honduras (El Jaral, 2; and Las Ventanas, 2) as _Sigmodon hispidus saturatus_ Bailey. Because these localities fall within the geographic range of _S. h. zanjonensis_ we were lead to examine the specimens. Three are young and one (126113 AMNH from Las Ventanas) is an adult female. The underparts of the young are washed with rufous as in _S. h. saturatus_. The adult lacks this rufous as do specimens of _S. h. zanjonensis_ and some specimens of _S. h. saturatus_. In the adult the color of the upper parts and size of the upper cheek-teeth are intermediate between the dark-backed, small-toothed _S. h. saturatus_ and the paler-backed, large-toothed _S. h. zanjonensis_. The rostrum is intermediate in width but definitely nearer the broad condition which obtains in _S. h. saturatus_. The tail is long, actually and in relation to the body (total length 275, tail 130), as in _S. h. zanjonensis_ to which we refer the specimens in question. ~Oryzomys couesi couesi~ (Alston) For alleged occurrence at Reforma in Oaxaca, Mexico (Goldman, N. Amer. Fauna, 43:31, September 23, 1918), see under _Oryzomys couesi mexicanus_ Allen. ~Oryzomys couesi mexicanus~ J. A. Allen Goldman (N. Amer. Fauna, 43, September 23, 1918) listed, as in the Field Museum of Natural Hi
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