This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...actual relationship between longipes and arcticeps at this point can not be determined, but it seems most certain from the color of such skins as are available that intergradation does take place at this point. Aside from the slight difference in shape, there seem to be no actual characters to distinguish the skulls of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...actual relationship between longipes and arcticeps at this point can not be determined, but it seems most certain from the color of such skins as are available that intergradation does take place at this point. Aside from the slight difference in shape, there seem to be no actual characters to distinguish the skulls of longipes from those of other forms of the leucogaster group. Specimens examined.--Total number, 39, from the following localities: Texas: Bee County, 1; Brownsville, 1 (Amer. Mus.); Comstock, 3; Concho County, 1 (type); Corpus Christi, 1; Eagle Pass, 1; Fort Clark, 8; Laredo, 2; Lomita Ranch, 2; Nueces Bay, 3; Raglan's Ranch, Rio Grande, 1; Rockport, 2 (Amer. Mus.); San Angelo, 1; San Diego, 1; Sauz Ranch, Cameron County, 1; Sheffield, 25 miles south on Pecos River, 1; Sycamore Creek, 1. Tamatjlipas: Camargo, 2; Reynosa, 1; Victoria, 2. Nuevo Leon: Linares, 3. ONYCHOMYS LEUCOGASTER BRSVIAURITUS Hollirter. 1913. Onychomys leucogaster breviauritus Hollister, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 26, p. 216. December 20. Type-locality.--Fort Reno, Oklahoma. Geographic distribution.--Eastern Nebraska, eastern and southcentral Kansas, and middle Oklahoma. From Neligh, Nebraska, and Fort Riley and Neosha Falls, Kansas, west and south to Kinsley, Kansas, and to Woodward and Fort Reno, Oklahoma. Entirely within the Carolinian and Austroriparian faunas of the Austral region. General characters.--Most like 0. l. longipes, but darker and richer colored, with shorter tail, smaller hind foot, and smaller ears. Color.--Adult in fuU winter pelage (96057, Alva, Oklahoma, February 27): Head and back a rich blackish-brown, the ground color pinkish-cinnamon, the overlying hairs with long blackish tips which streak and darken the ground color; cheeks and sides with ...
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