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| 13.0 |11.1 |7.1 |5.3 |3.4 |4.9 | 9.3 max.|159|51 |21 | 23.8 | 14.6 |11.8 |7.7 |5.6 |3.8 |5.6 |10.0 Female 4 av. |153|49 |20 | 23.1^3| 13.4 |11.2^3 |7.6^3|5.2 |3.7 |5.3 | 9.6^3 min.|140|44 |20 | 22.4 | 12.8 |10.8 |7.3 |5.0 |3.4 |5.1 | 9.2 max.|164|56 |20 | 24.2 | 13.6 |11.4 |7.7 |5.3 |3.9 |5.5 | 9.8 *Superior numbers denote the number of individuals averaged. _Measurements_.--External and cranial measurements of adults are given in table 1. _Remarks_.--Morphologically _C. g. stikinensis_ shows greater resemblance to _C. g. solus_ of Revillagigedo Island, than to the geographically adjacent subspecies _C. g. wrangeli_ and _C. g. phaeus_. Possibly the original stock of _C. g. solus_ was rafted to Revillagigedo Island from the Cleveland Peninsula. _Specimens examined_.--Total, 29, all in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, distributed as follows: British Columbia: Stikine River at Great Glacier, 22; Stikine River at Flood Glacier, 3. Alaska: Bradfield Canal, 1; Helm Bay, 2. Pitymys pinetorum scalopsoides (Audubon and Bachman) 1841. _Arvicola scalopsoides_ Audubon and Bachman, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1:97, type from Long Island, New York. 1912. _Pitymys pinetorum scalopsoides_ Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull., 79:229, December 31. Hanson (Trans. Wisconsin Acad. Sci., Arts, and Letters, 36:124, 1944) reported two pine mice from near Prairie du Sac, in Westpoint Township, Columbia County, Wisconsin, as _Pitymys pinetorum scalopsoides_ but cast doubt upon their subspecific identity. He also reported pine mice from Blue Mounds, Dane County, Wisconsin. We have examined these specimens (Westpoint, Columbia County, 2--No. 544, skin only, UWDEZ, and No. 521, skin only, H. C. Hanson's private collection; Westpoint, Dane County, 1, No. 11620, UWZM; Vermont, Dane County, 2, Nos. 11674 and 11694, UWZM) and have compared them with topotypes of _P. p. schmidti_, and with specimens of _P. p. nemoralis_ and _P. p. scalopsoides_. The specimens from Columbia and Dane counties differ from _P. p. schmidti_ in the greater zygomatic breadth, and lesser height of skull. They differ from _P. p. nemoralis_ of comparable age in shorter tooth-row and generally smaller skull. The interorbital region, however, is wider. In all of the features mentioned above, the specimens in question agree with _Pitymys pine
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