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Title: A New Subspecies of Pocket Mouse from Kansas

Author: E. Raymond Hall

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Volume 7, No. 11, pp. 587-590

November 15, 1954

A New Subspecies of Pocket Mouse
from Kansas

BY
E. RAYMOND HALL

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE
1954

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

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

Volume 7, No. 11, pp. 587-590
Published November 15, 1954

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY
FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1954

25-5678

A New Subspecies of Pocket Mouse from Kansas

by

E. Raymond Hall

When preparing distribution maps for a revised list of the Mammals of
Kansas it became apparent to me that pocket mice of the species
_Perognathus flavescens_ from south-central Kansas and adjoining parts
of Oklahoma were without a subspecific name. The new subspecies is
named and described below.

=Perognathus flavescens cockrumi= new subspecies

_Holotype._--Female, subadult (P4 moderately worn), skin
with skull, No. 13045, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist.; 4-1/2
mi. NE Danville, Harper Co., Kansas; December 1, 1939;
obtained by Sam Tihen; original No. 99 of J. A. Tihen.

_Range._--South-central Kansas south at least into Dewey
County, Oklahoma.

_Diagnosis._--Size small; upper parts Ochraceous-Buff
(capitalized color terms after Ridgway, Color Standards and
Color Nomenclature, Washington, D. C., 1912) heavily
suffused with black; postauricular patches and a band 8 mm
wide on each side Ochraceous-Buff; subauricular spot,
underparts, and forefeet white; hind feet slightly dusky;
tail bro