Geographic Distribution of the Pocket Mouse, Perognathus fasciatusJones, J. Knox
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Geographic Distribution of the Pocket Mouse, Perognathus fasciatus
Jones, J. Knox
Pocket mice
Specimens from the eastern part of the range of _P. f. fasciatus_ are
somewhat smaller and slightly darker than topotypes from Buford, North
Dakota. Specimens from 9 mi. SE Bainville, Johnson Lake and 3 mi. S
Medicine Lake, Montana, and from Crosby, North Dakota, are also paler
than those from farther east. At the southern limit of the range of the
subspecies, specimens from the Rosebud Agency and Minichaduza River,
South Dakota, approach _olivaceogriseus_ in pale dorsal coloration.
_Specimens examined._--Total number, 83, as follows: MANITOBA:
Aweme, 3 (USBS 2, NMC 1). Junction of Antler and Souris rivers, 1
(NMC). Oak Lake, 2 (NMC). MONTANA: _Roosevelt County_: 9 mi. SE
Bainville, 4 (MZ); Johnson Lake, 2 (USBS). _Sheridan County_: 3 mi.
S Medicine Lake, 1880 ft., 1 (KU). NEBRASKA: _Cherry County_: Ft.
Niobrara Game Reserve, 1 (NSM); Sparks, 1 (MZ); Valentine, 2
(UNDZ). NORTH DAKOTA: _Benson County_: 2 mi. W Fort Totten, 1400
ft., 3 (KU). _Bottineau County_: Bottineau, 1 (CNHM). _Burleigh
County_: 9 mi. E Bismark, 7 (MZ). _Dickey County_: Oakes, 2 (CNHM
1, USBS 1). _Divide County_: Crosby, 1 (USBS). _Kidder County_:
Dawson, 1 (USBS); 6 mi. W Steele, 6 (MZ). _McHenry County_: 1/2 mi.
E Upham, 1 (USBS). _Morton County_: 12 mi. W Mandan, 2 (MZ).
_Oliver County_: Ft. Clark, 8 (USBS). _Sargent County_: 7-2/10 mi.
E, 1-2/10 mi. S Oakes, 1200 ft., 1 (KU). _Sioux County_: Cannon
Ball, 6 (USBS). _Stark County_: 1 mi. S Dickinson, 1 (MZ); 9 mi. W
Dickinson, 3 (MZ); 2 mi. W Taylor, 4 (MZ). _Stutsman County_: 7 mi.
N Jamestown, 1 (MZ); 14 mi. W Jamestown, 1 (MZ). _Wells County_:
Bowdon, 1 (USBS). _Williams County_: Buford, 9 (USBS). SOUTH
DAKOTA: _Todd County_: Minichaduza River, 2 (USBS); Rosebud Agency,
1 (USBS). _Tripp County_: Colome, 3 (MZ). _Walworth County_: Swan
Creek, 13 mi. S Shelby, 1600 ft., 1 (KU).
=Perognathus fasciatus olivaceogriseus= Swenk
_Perognathus flavescens olivaceogriseus_ Swenk, Missouri Valley
Fauna, 3:6, June 5, 1940, type from [Little Bordeaux Creek,
sec. 14, T. 33 N, R. 48 W, 3 mi. E] Chadron, Dawes County,
Nebraska.
_Geographic distribution._--Southeastern Alberta, southeast to
eastern Wyoming and adjacent parts of South Dakota and Nebraska.
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