_Externals._--Longest facial vibrissae brownish like dark color of
head and extending beyond ear; carpal vibrissae mostly color of
underparts and extending to apical pad of fifth digit; hairiness
of foot-soles slightly more than shown in figure 20.
_Color._--Spot between eyes, band, confluent with color of
underparts, on each side of head extending anterodorsally anterior
to ear, and posterior third of each upper lip tinged with color of
underparts or, less often, pure white; chin and lower lips white;
remainder of sides and top of head posteriorly to, or a little
behind, a line connecting posterior margins of ears, blackish;
inside of pinna of ear, and sometimes outside of pinna, blackish;
dark spot posterior to each angle of mouth present on each side in
three-fourths of specimens; tip of tail black; remainder of upper
parts near (_l_) Antique Brown, and with more yellow than tone 3
of Raw Umber of Oberthür and Dauthenay, pl. 301. Often with more
blackish and red in winter. Underparts near (_a_ to _c_)
Ochraceous-Buff or Ochraceous-Salmon. Ochraceous-Salmon in some
juveniles. Color of underparts extends distally on posterior sides
of forelegs over toes onto antipalmar faces of feet and wrists,
and on medial sides of hind limbs over antiplantar faces of toes.
Least width of color of underparts averaging, in 17 adult males
(Berkeley, 5; San Francisco, 5; Palo Alto, 7), 55 (40-73) per cent
of greatest width of color of upper parts. Black tip of tail in
same series of males averaging 51 (35-60) mm., thus averaging
longer than hind foot and 33 per cent of length of tail (Palo Alto
and San Francisco, 31 per cent; Berkeley, 35 per cent). In 8 adult
females, least color of underparts amounts to 55 (47-62) per cent
of greatest width of color of upper parts. Black tip of tail
averages 41.5 (28-50) mm., thus averaging longer than hind foot
and 32 per cent of length of tail-vertebrae.
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