Female: Three adults (2 from Fortuna and 1 from Carlotta,
California) yield average and extreme measurements as follows:
Total length, 367 (360-374); length of tail, 130 (123-134); length
of hind foot, 40 (39-40). Tail averages 55 (52-57) per cent as
long as head and body. Length of hind foot less than basal length.
A subadult from Goldbeach, an adult from 13 mi. SW Grants Pass,
and an adult from Medford, measure, respectively, as follows:
Total length, 316, 344, 294; length of tail, 114, 120, 122; length
of hind foot, 36, 40, 38.
The average differences in external measurements of the two sexes
in the vicinity of Carlotta, are: Total length, 25; length of
tail, 8; length of hind foot, 6. Corresponding differences, at
Goldbeach, are: 70, 23, 10. Probably the females at Fortuna
reflect the large size of _munda_ more than do the males at
Carlotta and the differences between the measurements of the two
sexes probably, therefore, are actually more than are indicated by
the figures above.
_Externals._--Longest facial vibrissae black, brown or white
(often all three colors in same specimen) and extending beyond
ear; carpal vibrissae same color as underparts and extending to
apical pad of fifth digit; hairiness of foot-soles, in summer
pelage, as shown in figure 20.
_Color._--Upper parts, in summer, near (16 _l_) Brussels Brown or
tone 2 of Raw Umber of Oberthür and Dauthenay, pl. 301, to
slightly darker than tone 3 of same plate. Darker on nose and top
of head, usually with frontonasal white patch but lacking white
bar in front of each ear, except in the type and 2 specimens from
Salem. Chin, lower lips, angle of mouth, and usually posterior
seventh of upper lip white. Remainder of underparts Pale
Orange-Yellow. In winter usually lighter above with underparts
Warm Buff to Straw Yellow. 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 wrists, on medial side of
hind leg, typically over ankle in extremely narrow line which
widens out over distal phalanges of antiplantar faces of toes but
sometimes interrupted at ankle. Least width of color of underparts
averaging, in twenty available specimens, 39 (27-54) per cent of
greatest width of color of upper parts. Black tip of tail in five
adults averaging 50 (43-60) mm. long; thus averaging longer than
hind foot and 33 per cent of length of tail-vertebrae.
_Skull and teeth._--Male (based on 4 adults and subadults from
Eureka, Requa, Goldbeach, and Grant Pass): See measurements and
plates 19-21, 30. As described in _Mustela frenata nevadensis_
except that: Weight, 3.5 (3.5-4.1) grams; basilar length, 42.9
(41.8-44.0); least width of palate more or less than medial length
of P4.
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