Female: One young from the summit of the Trinity Mountains east of
Hoopa and one nontypical adult from 5500 feet elevation on South
Fork Mountain, Humboldt County, measure respectively as follows:
Total length, 330, 325; length of tail, 115, 123; length of hind
foot, 37, 37. Tail is 53 and 61 per cent as long as head and body.
Length of hind foot less than basal length.
Average differences in external measurements between the two
sexes, indicated by the unsatisfactory material available, are:
Total length, 86; length of tail, 31; length of hind foot, 9.
_Externals._--Longest facial vibrissae black or dark brown and
extending beyond ear; carpal vibrissae same color as underparts
and extending as far as apical pad of fifth digit; hairiness of
foot-soles, in summer pelage, as shown in figure 19.
_Color._--Upper parts, in summer, Brussels Brown to near (_n_)
Brussels Brown or lighter than tone 3 of Raw Umber of Oberthür and
Dauthenay, pl. 301, usually darkest on nose and forehead. Chin
white. Remainder of underparts Buff-Yellow to Warm Buff. Tip of
tail black. Winter pelage unknown. Color of underparts extends
distally on posterior sides of forelegs over toes onto antipalmar
faces of feet and sometimes wrists, on medial sides of hind legs
only to ankles, but toes sometimes with isolated white markings.
Least width of color of underparts in the type and 2 adults from
Jackson Lake averaging 35 (30-40) per cent of greatest width of
color of upper parts. Black tip of tail averaging 54 (53-55) mm.
long; thus longer than hind foot and averaging 37 per cent of
length of tail-vertebrae.
_Skull and teeth._--Male (based on 4 adults: Type, Mt. Ashland, 1;
Jackson Lake, 2): See measurements and plates 19-21, 30. As
described in _Mustela frenata nevadensis_ except that: Weight, 3.8
(3.5-4.3) grams; basilar length, 44.4 (42.6-45.8); zygomatic
breadth more or less than distance between condylar foramen and M1
or than distance between anterior palatine foramen and anterior
margin of tympanic bulla; mastoid breadth more than postpalatal
length; least width of palate less than medial length of P4
(except in one specimen).
Female (based on one adult possibly not typical, from 5500 ft.,
South Fork Mt.): See measurements. As described in _Mustela
frenata nevadensis_ except that: Weight, 2.2 grams; basilar
length, 38.1; zygomatic breadth less than distance between
condylar foramen and M1 and less than distance between anterior
palatine foramen and anterior margin of tympanic bulla;
postorbital breadth more than width of basioccipital measured from
medial margin of one foramen lacerum posterior to its opposite.
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