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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Additional Records and Extensions of Known Ranges of Mammals from Utah, by Stephen D. Durrant and M. Raymond Lee and Richard M. Hansen This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Additional Records and Extensions of Known Ranges of Mammals from Utah Author: Stephen D. Durrant M. Raymond Lee Richard M. Hansen Release Date: March 1, 2010 [EBook #31458] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RANGES OF MAMMALS FROM UTAH *** Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Diane Monico, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Volume 9, No. 2, pp. 69-80 December 10, 1955 Additional Records and Extensions of Known Ranges of Mammals from Utah BY STEPHEN D. DURRANT, M. RAYMOND LEE, AND RICHARD M. HANSEN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE 1955 Additional Records and Extensions of Known Ranges of Mammals From Utah BY STEPHEN D. DURRANT, M. RAYMOND LEE, AND RICHARD M. HANSEN The Museum of Zoology, University of Utah, contains approximately 5000 specimens in addition to those available to Durrant (1952) when he prepared his account of the "Mammals of Utah, _Taxonomy and Distribution_." Study of this material discloses two kinds of mammals not heretofore known to occur in Utah, and extends the known limits of occurrence of many others as is set forth below in what may be thought of as a supplement to the aforementioned report of 1952. Our study was financed in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation. _=Sorex vagrans obscurus=_ Merriam. Dusky Shrew.--Twelve specimens are available from the Abajo Mountains and Elk Ridge, San Juan County, Utah, as follows: North Creek, 6 mi. W Monticello, 8300 ft.; 1 mi. S Twin Peaks, 9500 ft.; Kigalia R. S., 8000 ft.; and Gooseberry R. S., 8250 ft. Previously, the only known specimens from east of the Colorado River in Utah were from the La Sal Mountains in extreme eastern Grand County and extreme northern San Juan County. These twelve specimens extend the known area of occurrence of the species in Utah approximately
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