DCHP-3

bushy-tailed wood rat

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a species of wood rat, Neotoma cinerea.

Quotations

1908
Bushy-tailed wood rat. Mr. Moberly states that a wood mouse or rat . . . was repeatedly seen by him at Fort McMurray, but nowhere else on this side, although not uncommon in New Caledonia, British Columbia, where the people speak of it as the "small wood rat."