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diff --git a/31046.txt b/31046.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2ea0e0e --- /dev/null +++ b/31046.txt @@ -0,0 +1,580 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of A New Pocket Mouse (Genus Perognathus) from +Kansas, by E. Lendell Cockrum + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: A New Pocket Mouse (Genus Perognathus) from Kansas + +Author: E. Lendell Cockrum + +Release Date: January 22, 2010 [EBook #31046] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NEW POCKET MOUSE (GENUS PEROGNATHUS) *** + + + + +Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Diane Monico, and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + + +A New Pocket Mouse (Genus Perognathus) +from Kansas + +BY + +E. LENDELL COCKRUM + + +University of Kansas Publications +Museum of Natural History + +Volume 5, No. 11, pp. 203-206 +December 15, 1951 + + +University of Kansas +LAWRENCE +1951 + + + + +UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY + +Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, A. Byron Leonard, +Edward H. Taylor, Robert W. Wilson + +Volume 5, No. 11, pp. 203-206 +December 15, 1951 + + +UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS +Lawrence, Kansas + + +PRINTED BY +FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER +TOPEKA, KANSAS +1951 + +23-8186 + + + + +A New Pocket Mouse (Genus Perognathus) +from Kansas + +BY + +E. LENDELL COCKRUM + + +In studying the kinds of mammals known from Kansas, I had occasion to +examine a series of _Perognathus flavus_ from the western part of the +state. Comparisons of these specimens with topotypes of named +subspecies revealed that the specimens from Kansas belong to a +heretofore undescribed subspecies which ranges through western +Nebraska, eastern Colorado, western Kansas, and western Oklahoma. This +subspecies is named and described as follows. + + +=Perognathus flavus bunkeri=, new subspecies + + _Type._--Female, adult, skin and skull; No. 11716, Univ. + Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist.; Conard Farm, 1 mi. E Coolidge, + Hamilton County, Kansas; 1 July 1936; obtained by F. Parks + and C. W. Hibbard, original No. 894 of Hibbard. + + _Diagnosis._--Size large (see measurements). Color light, + upper parts between Pinkish Buff and Cinnamon-Buff + (capitalized color terms after Ridgway, Color Standards and + Color Nomenclature, Washington, D. C., 1912), sparsely mixed + with black hairs; the effect at a distance of eight feet, is + between Clay Color and Tawny-Olive; lateral line between + Pinkish Buff and Cinnamon-Buff; postauricular spots near + Pinkish Buff; small subauricular spots white; underparts + white. Skull of medium size (see measurements); frontonasal + and mastoidal regions much enlarged; interparietal + transversely narrow. + + _Comparisons._--From topotypes of _P. f. flavus_ from El + Paso, El Paso County, Texas, _P. f. bunkeri_ differs as + follows: Averaging larger in all cranial measurements taken + except in occipitonasal length, which is approximately the + same, and in interparietal width, which is less; color more + buffy, with fewer black hairs dorsally. From topotypes of + _P. f. piperi_ from 23 miles southwest of Newcastle, Weston + County, Wyoming, _P. f. bunkeri_ differs as follows: Smaller + in frontonasal length, mastoidal breadth, and length of + auditory bulla; color more buffy, with fewer black hairs + dorsally. From topotypes of _P. f. sanluisi_ from nine miles + east of Center, Alamosa County, Colorado, _P. f. bunkeri_ + differs as follows: Averaging larger in all cranial + measurements taken except interparietal width, which is + smaller; color lighter and more buffy. + +_Remarks._--This is a brightly colored subspecies of _Perognathus +flavus_, with less black dorsally than any adjacent one. The lateral +line is well marked. Three young adult specimens taken from Wakeeney, +Trego County, Kansas, are much brighter than other specimens from +Kansas. The five specimens from Greeley, Weld County, Colorado, are +much darker dorsally, like _P. f. piperi_, but are referable to _P. f. +bunkeri_ on the basis of cranial characters. + +The name _P. f. bunkeri_ is proposed in recognization of the continued +attention which the late Charles Dean Bunker, Curator of Birds and +Mammals of the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, gave to +building up the collection of mammals from Kansas. Acknowledgment is +made of the assistance afforded me by a Research Assistantship with the +Kansas Biological Survey. + + _Measurements._--Measurements of holotype and average of + four adults (two males and two females) from the type + locality are as follows: total length, 104, 105.2; length of + tail, 44, 47.5; length of hind foot, 16, 16.7; length of + ear, 7, 7.2; occipitonasal length, 20.6, 20.9; frontonasal + length, 14.0, 13.9; mastoidal breadth, 12.1, 12.0; length of + bulla, 8.0, 7.8; interorbital breadth, 4.5, 4.6; alveolar + length of upper molariform tooth-row, 3.3, 3.1; + interparietal width, 3.2, 3.2. All of the measurements + listed above are available for each of the five specimens + except that the occipitonasal length and frontonasal length + are not available for the two males. + + _Specimens examined._--Total, 54, distributed by localities + of capture as shown below. Those from Nebraska and Colorado + are in the US Nat'l Mus., Biol. Surv. Coll., and those from + Kansas are in the Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. + + NEBRASKA:--_Box Butte Co._: Alliance, 1. + + COLORADO:--_Weld Co._: Greeley, 5. _Kit Carson Co._: + Burlington, 1. _Fremont Co._: Canon City, 1. + + KANSAS:--_Cheyenne County_: 23 mi. [by road] NW St. Francis, + 1. _Rawlins County_: 12 mi. NE McDonald, 1; 2 mi. NE Ludell, + 1. _Decatur County_: 2 mi. S, 6 mi. W Oberlin, 1. _Logan + County_: Vincent Ranch, N. Fork Smoky R., [= 4 mi. W and 8 + mi. N McAllaster], 2; unspecified, 1. _Gove County_: Castle + Rock, 1. _Trego County_: Wakeeney, 3. _Hamilton County_: 1 + mi. E Coolidge, 8. _Stanton County_: 6 mi. W, 1-1/2 mi. S + Manter, 1; 8-1/2 mi. W, 2-1/2 mi. S Manter, 1. _Kiowa + County_: Rezeau Ranch, 5 mi. N Belvidere, 1. _Morton + County_: 9 mi. N, 3 mi. E Elkhart, 18. _Meade County_: 9 mi. + SW Meade, 1; 17 mi. SW Meade, 2. _Clark County_: Stephenson + Ranch, 7 mi. S Kingsdown, 1. + + OKLAHOMA:--_Texas County_: 2 mi. E Eva, 1. + +_University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History, Lawrence, Kansas._ + +_Transmitted May 14, 1951._ + +23-8186 + + + + + * * * * * + +Transcriber's Notes + +Page 205: Changed underscribed to undescribed + (belong to a heretofore underscribed subspecies). + +Bold text is shown within =equal signs=. + +Italic text is shown within _underscores_. + + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A New Pocket Mouse (Genus Perognathus) +from Kansas, by E. 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