_Description._--_Size._--Male: Fifteen subadult topotypes yield
average and extreme measurements as follows: Total length, 400
(357-437); length of tail, 149 (122-171); length of hind foot,
47.6 (42-59). Tail averages 59 per cent as long as head and body.
Length of hind foot averaging more than basal length.
Corresponding measurements of one adult and 3 young from Mount
Rainier are: 415 (405-423); 155 (145-164); 51 (50-53).
Female: Five adult topotypes yield average and extreme
measurements as follows: Total length, 349 (330-393); length of
tail, 124 (114-133); length of hind foot, 38 (36-39). Tail
averages 55 per cent as long as head and body. Length of hind foot
averaging about same as basal length. Corresponding measurements
of two adults and 6 young from Mount Rainier are: 338 (320-360);
121 (115-132); 36 (34-40).
The average differences in external measurements of the two sexes,
from Mount Adams, are: Total length, 51; length of tail, 25;
length of hind foot, 9.6. Corresponding differences between the
specimens from Mount Rainier are: 77; 34; 15.
_Externals._--Longest facial vibrissae black or brown (often both
colors in same specimen) and extending beyond ear; carpal
vibrissae same color as underparts and extending to or beyond
apical pad of fifth digit; hairiness of foot-soles slightly less
than shown in figure 19.
_Color._--Upper parts in summer near (14 _n_) Argus Brown or tone
4 of Burnt Umber of Oberthür and Dauthenay, pl. 304; one topotype
Buckthorn Brown or tone 3 to 4 of Snuff Brown of Oberthür and
Dauthenay, pl. 303. Dark spot at each angle of mouth present or
absent, and when present, often fused with color of upper parts,
which rarely covers lower lips. Chin, and usually lower lips,
white. Remainder of underparts Buff-Yellow to Naples Yellow. In
winter, all white except tip of tail which is at all times black,
or upper parts near (14) Brussels Brown to near (_j_) Snuff Brown
with smoked effect and underparts white, rarely with trace of
yellowish. Color of underparts extends distally on posterior sides
of forelegs over toes onto antipalmar faces of feet and usually
all of wrists, on medial sides of hind legs anywhere from knee to
tips of toes. Least width of color of underparts averaging in ten
topotypes, 24 (10-37) per cent of greatest width of color of upper
parts. Black tip of tail in same series averaging 55 (45-60) mm.
long, thus longer than hind foot and averaging 37 per cent of
length of tail-vertebrae.
The color of the underparts is not so narrow in the specimens from
Mount Rainier and it is believed that the slender bodies used in
stuffing the topotypes has accentuated in them the appearance of
narrowness of the light-colored underparts.
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