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._

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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_.

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