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Title: Geographic Distribution of the Pocket Mouse, Perognathus fasciatus

Author: J. Knox Jones, Jr.

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Geographic Distribution of the Pocket Mouse,
Perognathus fasciatus

BY

J. KNOX JONES, JR.

University of Kansas Publications
Museum of Natural History

Volume 5, No. 29, pp. 515-526, 7 figures in text
August 1, 1953

University of Kansas
LAWRENCE
1953

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, A. Byron Leonard,
Robert W. Wilson

Volume 5, No. 29, pp. 515-526, 7 figures in text
August 1, 1953

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence
1953

PRINTED BY
FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER
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1953

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Geographic Distribution of the Pocket Mouse, Perognathus fasciatus

BY

J. KNOX JONES, JR.

In his "Revision of the pocket mice of the genus Perognathus," Osgood
(1900:18-20) reviewed the distribution, as then known, of _Perognathus
fasciatus_ and recognized two geographic races--_Perognathus fasciatus_
[_fasciatus_] Wied-Neuwied in eastern Montana and Wyoming and adjacent
parts of North and South Dakota, and _Perognathus fasciatus infraluteus_
Thomas, known only from the type locality at Loveland, Larimer County,
Colorado. Later, Cary (1911:61) described _Perognathus fasciatus litus_
as a pale subspecies occurring in the lower Sweetwater Valley and
adjacent parts of the Red Desert of south-central Wyoming. After 1911 no
important taxonomic contributions dealing with _Perognathus fasciatus_
appeared.

In studying the kinds of pocket mice known from Nebraska, I examined
thirteen specimens of _P. fasciatus_ from the northwestern part of the
state which did not agree satisfactorily with the descriptions of any
known subspecies of