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قراءة كتاب Natural History of the Brush Mouse (Peromyscus boylii) in Kansas With Description of a New Subspecies

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Natural History of the Brush Mouse (Peromyscus boylii) in Kansas With Description of a New Subspecies

Natural History of the Brush Mouse (Peromyscus boylii) in Kansas With Description of a New Subspecies

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Cowley Co.: 3 mi. W Cedar Vale, 16. Chautauqua Co.: type locality, 10.

Table 1. Average and Extreme Measurements of Specimens of P. b. cansensis, of P. b. Attwateri From Cherokee County, Kansas, and of Topotypes of P. b. attwateri Listed by Osgood, 1909.
  P. b. cansensis P. b. attwateri
Three miles west
of Cedar Vale
Type locality Both localities Two miles south
of Galena
Type locality[A]
No. specimens 11 7 18 20 10
Total length 180.5
170-199
176.7
166-188
179.1
.....
186.2
170-210
196.0
.....
Tail-vertebrae 85.5
72-101
85.0
75-93
85.3
.....
94.5
83-104
100.0
.....
Hind foot 23.1
22-24
23.6
22-25
23.3
.....
23.8
22-25
21.0
.....
Ear from notch 18.2
17-19
19.1
18-21
18.5
.....
18.4
14-21
.....
.....
Greatest length of skull 27.9
26.8-29.0
28.3
27.9-28.9
28.1
.....
27.8
26.6-29.1
.....
.....
Length of nasals 10.4
9.9-10.8
10.2
9.5-10.7
10.3
.....
9.9
9.1-10.4
.....
.....
Zygomatic breadth 14.3
13.9-15.0
13.5
13.0-13.9
13.9
.....
13.8
13.3-14.4
.....
.....

[A] From Turtle Creek, Kerr County, Texas, after Osgood (1909:148).

Distribution of Peromyscus boylii in Kansas

The subspecies Peromyscus boylii attwateri is known in the state only from Cherokee County, the southeasternmost county in the state. Probably the only locality where the brush mouse occurs in that county is on the systems of cliffs along Shoal Creek, southward from Galena, to the eastward of Baxter Springs. This is the extent of the known range, and in my opinion the probable range, of P. b. attwateri in the state (see Fig. 1). Cockrum (1952:fig. 49) by mistake mapped the species from west of Baxter Springs in Cherokee County.

Osgood (1909:149) recorded the subspecies P. b. attwateri from

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