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ntified as _Thomomys talpoides clusius_ two specimens (66465 and 66523 BS) from Pass (= Parkman) and one specimen (66464 BS) from Dayton, in Wyoming. We have examined these specimens and find that they lack the broad braincase and narrow nasals of _clusius_ and in these and in other features the three specimens resemble _T. t. caryi_ and _T. t. bullatus_ more than they resemble any other named kinds. Although structurally, and in color, intermediate between the two subspecies named immediately above, the specimens show greater resemblance (large size and narrow braincase) to the latter and are referred by us to _Thomomys talpoides bullatus_. ~Thomomys talpoides clusius~ Coues Bailey (N. Amer. Fauna, 39:102, November 15, 1915) identified as _Thomomys talpoides bullatus_ an adult male (147347 BS) from the J. K. Ranch, 5900 ft., on Meadow Creek, Wind River, Wyoming [= Wind River of Bailey, _loc. cit._] and a young female (168666 BS) from Sage Creek, 8 mi. NW Fort Washakie, Wyoming. The rosaceous tone of these pale individuals is more as in some populations of _T. t. ocius_ and _T. t. clusius_ to the southward. Also, the skull of the male, although large, is distinctly narrower than in _T. t. bullatus_ and we think shows the influence of the _T. t. tenellus_ stock. All features considered, we refer the specimens to _T. t. clusius_. ~Thomomys talpoides glacialis~ Dalquest and Scheffer Vernon Bailey (N. Amer. Fauna, 39:119, November 15, 1915) listed 19 specimens from Roy, Washington, as _Thomomys douglasi yelmensis_ Merriam. Our examination of 26 specimens (205039-205051, 205072-205077, and 206545-206551 BS) labeled as "Roy," and presumably including those listed by Bailey (_loc. cit._), leads us to identify all 26 as _Thomomys talpoides glacialis_ on the basis of widely spreading zygomatic arches and decidedly ochraceous hue of underparts. ~Geomys bursarius jugossicularis~ Hooper Seven skins with skulls (35104/47369-35110/47375 BS) from Las Animas, Colorado, probably formed the basis for Cary's (N. Amer. Fauna, 33:129, August 17, 1911) record of _Geomys lutescens_ from that locality. Comparison of the material reveals that the animals are referable instead to the later named subspecies, _Geomys lutescens jugossicularis_ Hooper (Occas. Papers Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan, 420:1, June 28, 1940), on the basis of (1) more reddish color, (2) deeper zygomatic plate, (3) shorter jugal as expressed as a percentage o
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