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Title: Geographic Variation in the Harvest Mouse, Reithrodontomys megalotis, On the Central Great Plains And in Adjacent Regions

Author: J. Knox Jones
B. Mursaloglu

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Volume 14, No. 2, pp. 9-27, 1 fig. in text
July 24, 1961

Geographic Variation in the Harvest Mouse,
Reithrodontomys megalotis,
On the Central Great Plains
And in Adjacent Regions

By

J. KNOX JONES, JR. AND B. MURSALO[)G]LU

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE
1961

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch,
Robert W. Wilson

Volume 14, No. 2, pp. 9-27, 1 fig. in text
Published July 24, 1961

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED IN
THE STATE PRINTING PLANT
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1961

Geographic Variation in the Harvest Mouse,
Reithrodontomys megalotis,
On the Central Great Plains
And in Adjacent Regions

By

J. KNOX JONES, JR. AND B. MURSALO[)G]LU

The western harvest mouse, _Reithrodontomys megalotis_, inhabits most
parts of the central Great Plains and adjacent regions of tall grass
prairie to the eastward, shows a marked predilection for grassy
habitats, is common in many areas, and is notably less variable
geographically than most other cricetids found in the same region. _R.
megalotis_ occurs (see Hall and Kelson, 1959:586, map 342) from
Minnesota, southwestern Wisconsin, northwestern Illinois, Iowa and
Missouri westward to, but apparently not across, the Rocky Mountains
from southeastern Alberta to Colorado; it