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Excerpt from Revision of the Wood Rats of the Genus Neotoma The present revision is mainly the result of a study of the wood rats in the collection of the Biological Survey, numbering over specimens, including topotypes of most of the species. These were supplemented by those in the United States National Museum, the private collection of Dr. C. Hart Merriam, and a few loaned or submit ted for identification bv the American Museum of Natural History, the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, the Field Museum of Natural History, and the private collections of 'e. R. Warren, Joseph Grin nell, and F. Stephens, making a total of over.4,000 specimens. I am especially indebted to Dr. C. Hart Merriam for the privilege of using his private collection. Acknowledgments are due also for the use of the collection of the United States National Museum; to Dr. J. A. Allen, American Museum of Natural History, to Witmer Stone and James A. G. Rehn, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, to Dr. D. G. Elliot, Field Museum of Natural History, and to Prof. A. L. Herrera, City of Mexico, for the loan of types and topotypes, and to Oldfield Thomas and others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.