_Skull and teeth._--Male (based on 5 adults from Alberta): See
measurements and plates 16-18; weight, 4.7 (4.6-4.9) grams;
basilar length, 46.0 (44.7-46.8); zygomatic breadth more than
distance between condylar foramen and M1 or than between anterior
palatine foramen and anterior margin of tympanic bulla; mastoid
breadth more than postpalatal length; postorbital breadth less
than length of upper premolars and more than width of
basioccipital measured from medial margin of one foramen lacerum
posterior to its opposite; interorbital breadth greater than
distance between foramen opticum and anterior margin of tympanic
bulla; breadth of rostrum more or less (usually less) than length
of tympanic bulla; least width of palate less than greatest length
of P4; anterior margin of tympanic bulla as far posterior to
foramen ovale as width of 3 to 4 (including I3) upper incisors;
height of tympanic bulla more 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 below talonid of m1
or anterior half of m2.
Female (based on 5 adults: Alberta, 3; N. D., 1; Sask., 1.): See
measurements and plates 31-33; weight, 3.1 (2.8-3.5) grams;
basilar length, 42.3 (40.0-43.7); zygomatic breadth more or less
(approximately equal to) than distance between condylar foramen
and M1 or that between anterior palatine foramen and anterior
margin of tympanic bulla; postorbital breadth less than length of
upper premolars and more or less than width of basioccipital
measured from medial margin of one foramen lacerum posterior to
its opposite; least width of palate not more than greatest length
of P4; tympanic bulla as far posterior to foramen ovale as width
of 3 to 4 (including I3) upper incisors; height of tympanic bulla
not less than distance from its anterior margin to foramen ovale;
length of tympanic bulla more than length of lower molar and
premolar tooth-rows and longer or shorter than rostrum.
The skull of the female averages 34 per cent lighter than that of
the male.
Comparisons of the skull with those of _M. f. primulina_, _M. f.
spadix_, _M. f. oribasus_, _M. f. alleni_, _M. f. nevadensis_, and
_M. f. neomexicana_ are made in accounts of those subspecies.
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