A Geographical Study of the Kangaroo Rats of California
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922. Excerpt: ... County, California (Merriam, 1904, p. 145). Type collected by Ver 27176 non Bailey, April 16, 1891; now no., Biol. Surv. coll., U. S. oiO i D National Museum (Lyon and Osgood, 1909, p. 60). Distribution area.--Territory of moderate altitude lying east of Owens Valley, and extending north into Nevada; westernmost station, Olancha, Inyo County; southernmost, head of Emigrant Canon, Panamint Mountains, Inyo County. Altitudinal range, 3600-5300 feet. Life-zone, Lower Sonoran in its upper portion. (See map, fig. W.) The following localities in California are represented in the material examined, the number of specimens from each place being also given. Inyo County: head of Emigrant Canon, 4900 feet, Panamint. Mountains, 22; Lee Plat, 5200-5300 feet, 15 miles north of Darwin, 25; Lee Mine, 5200 feet, 12 miles north of Darwin, 1; Darwin, 4800 feet, 5; near Olancha, 3600-3900 feet, 2. Total number of specimens examined, 55. Dipodomys deserti Stephens Big Desert Kangaroo Rat (PL 4, fig. 28; text-figs. E, P, S, X) Dipodomys deserti Stephens (1887, p. 42, pL 5) orig. descr.; and of authors generally. Dipodomys deserti helleri Elliot (1903, p. 249) orig. descr.; and of authors. Dipodomys deserti deserti, Miller (1912, p. 277). Diagnosis.--A very large, four-toed, very pale-colored kangaroo rat; no dark ventral tail stripe, but tail conspicuously white tipped; no dark facial markings; no dusky stripe on sole of hind foot. Skull of extreme narrow-faced type, and with enormously inflated bullae; supra-occipital and interparietal so extremely appressed in most specimens as to be eliminated from dorsal view by the swollen mastoid bullae. Pelage.--Remarkably long and silky even for a kangaroo rat. In complete fresh fall coat, typical hairs on rump, where longest, 24 millim...
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