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Gray Bushy-tailed Wood Rat.
Neotoma cinerea cinerea.
(M.A. Tamma No 31 page 95.)
Neotoma cinerea
1915- Mus cinereus Ord, Guthrie
Geog. 2d Amer. ed., vol.2, p 292.
1857 Neotoma cinerea Baird, Mamms of N.
Amer. p 499.
1885 Neotoma cinerea True, Proc. U.S.
at. Mus., vol 7 (1887) p 98. 1885.
1903-Neotoma cinerea acraia Elliot,
Field Clubb. Mus. Publs. 87 Zool.
der. vol.3, p 247. Dec. 1903.
Type Locality. Near Great Falls, Cascade
Co. Montana.
Could be:
Neotoma cinerea orolestes
(M. Amer. Tamma No. 31, p 104.)
presence of large, sphenopalatine
vacuities distinguishes orolestes from
cinerea. This character very constant.