_Skull and teeth._--Male (based on ten adults from Massachusetts):
See measurements and plates 16-18; weight, 3.6 (3.3-4.4) grams;
basilar length, 44.6 (43.3-46.0); zygomatic breadth less than
distance between condylar foramen and Ml or than between anterior
palatine foramen and anterior margin of tympanic bulla; mastoid
breadth less than postpalatal length; postorbital breadth more or
less than length of upper premolars and greater than width of
basioccipital measured from medial margin of one foramen lacerum
posterior to its opposite; interorbital breadth more or less
(usually more) than distance between foramen opticum and anterior
margin of tympanic bulla; breadth of rostrum less than length of
tympanic bulla; least width of palate less than length of P4;
anterior margin of tympanic bulla as far posterior to foramen
ovale as width of 3 to 6 upper incisors; height of tympanic bulla
more or less than distance from its anterior margin to foramen
ovale; length of tympanic bulla more than length of lower molar
and premolar tooth-row and longer or shorter than rostrum;
anterior margin of masseteric fossa behind or directly below
posterior fourth of m1.
Female (based on five adults from Mass.): See measurements and
plates 31-33; weight, 1.7 (1.2-2.1) grams; basilar length, 36.5
(35.2-38.1); zygomatic breadth less than distance between condylar
foramen and M1 or than between anterior palatine foramen and
anterior margin of tympanic bulla; postorbital breadth more or
less than length of upper premolars and more than width of
basioccipital measured from medial margin of one foramen lacerum
posterior to its opposite; least width of palate more or less
(usually less) than greatest length of P4; tympanic bulla as far
posterior to foramen ovale as width of 4 to 5-1/2 upper incisors;
height of tympanic bulla less than distance from its anterior
margin to foramen ovale; length of tympanic bulla more than length
of lower molar and premolar tooth-row and longer than rostrum.
The skull of the female averages 53 per cent lighter than that of
the average male.
Comparisons of the skull with those of _M. f. olivacea_, _M. f.
spadix_, _M. f. primulina_, and _M. f. arthuri_, are made in the
accounts of those subspecies. As compared with that of _M. f. occisor_
the skull of adult male _noveboracensis_, is of smaller average size
with relatively (to basilar length of Hensel) lesser mastoid and
zygomatic breadths. In addition to the zygomatic arches of
_noveboracensis_ being less widely bowed outward they seem to be more
rounded posteriorly. Comparisons of subadult females indicate that
these differences exist in the females as well as in the adult males.
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