=Arizona.= _Coconino County_: VT Park, Kaibab Plateau, 1; Deadman
Flat, 6400 ft., 1[74]; Little Spring, 1[59]; Government Prairie,
near Parks, 1[74]; _Coconino? County_: San Francisco Forest
(Yavapai Co., in 1886), 1[2]; 25 mi. SE Flagstaff, 1; Quaking Asp
Settlement, 1[2]. _Apache County_: Springerville, 1; North Fork
White River, White Mts., 8200 ft., 4[87]; head San Francisco
River, Judd Ranch, Alpine, 1[74]; 2 mi. SE Big Lake Knoll, 8700
ft., 24 mi. S Springerville, 1[74]. _Greenlee County_: S end Blue
Range, 9000 ft., Prieto Plateau, 1; Beaver Creek, 7000 ft., 1[74].
=New Mexico.= _Grant County_: Mogollon Mts., Willow Creek, 8500
ft., 1.
=Mustela frenata nevadensis= Hall
Long-tailed Weasel
Plates 19, 20, 21, 33, 34, 35 and 39
_Mustela frenata nevadensis_ Hall, Carnegie Instit. Washington
Publ. 473:91, November 20, 1936.
_Putorius longicauda_, Coues, Fur-bearing animals, p. 136, 1877
(part); Merriam, N. Amer. Fauna, 5:83, July 30, 1891.
_Putorius (Gale) brasiliensis frenatus_, Coues, Fur-bearing
animals, p. 142, 1877 (part).
_Putorius arizonensis_, Merriam, N. Amer. Fauna, 11:22, figs. 13,
14, June 30, 1896 (part); Stephens, Mammals of California, p.
247, 1906.
_Mustela arizonensis_, Grinnell and Swarth, Univ. California Publ.
Zoöl., 10:376, October 31, 1913; Whitlow and Hall, Univ.
California Publ. Zoöl., 40:247, September 30, 1933.
_Mustela arizonensis arizonensis_, Grinnell, Univ. California Publ.
Zoöl., 40:102, September 26, 1933.
_Mustela frenata_, Boyer, Journ. Mamm., 24:99, February 20, 1943.
_Type._--Female, adult, skull and skin; no. 41053, Mus. Vert.
Zoöl.; three miles east Baker, White Pine County, Nevada; May 30,
1929; obtained by E. R. Hall and W. C. Russell; original no. 2674,
E. R. H.
The skull (plates 33-35) is complete and unbroken. The teeth all
are present and entire. The skin is fairly well made. Eight mammae
are evident and show the animal to have been nursing young.
_Range._--Altitudinally, 700 feet at Wenatchee, Washington, to the
highest parts of the mountains of the western United States; Upper
Sonoran Life-zone to Arctic Alpine Life-zone; southern British
Columbia in the Cascades and territory west to Monashee Mountains,
and Nelson, southward in the Cascades of northern Washington, over
western Washington, Idaho, Utah, and Nevada to northeastern
Arizona and northern New Mexico; westward from the eastern base of
the Rocky Mountains in Colorado to the western base of the Sierra
Nevada and Cascades of California and to the Cascades of southern
Oregon. See figures 29 and 30 on pages 221 and 314.
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