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Title: A New Pocket Mouse (Genus Perognathus) from Kansas

Author: E. Lendell Cockrum

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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