_Color._--Upper parts, in summer, near (_n_) Argus Brown or tone 4
of Brownish Drab of Oberthür and Dauthenay, pl. 302. Dark spot at
each angle of mouth well developed; often fused with color of
upper parts which sometimes covers lower lips. Chin white.
Remainder of underparts near (14 _a´_ to 16 _c´_) Ochraceous-Buff.
In winter, upper parts near (14) Argus Brown with smoked effect
and Warm Buff to Naples Yellow below. Tip of tail at all times
black. Color of underparts extends distally on posterior sides of
forelegs over toes onto antipalmar faces of feet and usually all
of wrists, on medial side of hind legs typically only to knee but
sometimes to ankle. Tips of toes of hind feet almost always marked
with color of underparts. Least width of color of underparts
averaging in a series of 14 males from Blaine, Oregon, 23 (14-36)
per cent of greatest width of color of upper parts. Black tip of
tail in 8 adult males from Blaine, Oregon, averaging 59 (47-70)
mm. long; thus longer than hind foot and averaging 37 per cent of
length of tail-vertebrae.
_Skull and teeth._--Male (based on 9 adults from Blaine, Tillamook
Co., Oregon): See measurements and plates 19-21; weight, 4.4
(3.3-5.3) grams; basilar length, 45.6 (42.4-47.7); zygomatic
breadth more or less (usually more) than distance between condylar
foramen and M1 or than between anterior palatine foramen and
anterior margin of tympanic bulla; mastoid breadth more or less
(usually more) than postpalatal length; postorbital breadth less
(except in some instances of malformations of frontal sinuses
which result from infestation by parasites) 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; interorbital breadth more or less than distance between
foramen opticum and anterior margin of tympanic bulla; breadth of
rostrum less than length of tympanic bulla; least width of palate
more or less than 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
more or less than orbitonasal length; anterior margin of
masseteric fossa directly below m2.
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