Mammals taken Along the Alaska HighwayBaker, Rollin H. (Rollin Harold)
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Mammals taken Along the Alaska Highway
Baker, Rollin H. (Rollin Harold)
Mammals -- North America
_Remarks._--Specimens from one mile northeast of Anchorage show little
tendency toward _C. r. orca_ from the Prince William Sound area (see
Orr, 1945:73). One specimen from this locality is slightly darker than
the others.
Red-backed mice were numerous in most localities where Alcorn trapped.
A number of specimens were taken adjacent to and within abandoned road
camps, where second growth vegetation was rank. As in the case of _C.
gapperi_, he found _C. rutilus_ in varied habitats.
Clethrionomys gapperi athabascae (Preble)
Red-backed Mouse
_Evotomys gapperi athabascae_ Preble, N. Amer. Fauna, 27:178,
October 26, 1908. (Type from Fort Smith, Slave Lake, Mackenzie
District, Northwest Territories, Canada.)
_Clethrionomys gapperi athabascae_ Harper, Jour. Mamm., 13:28,
February 9, 1932.
_Specimens examined._--Total 14, as follows: _British Columbia_: N
side Muska River, 1200 ft., 4 mi. W Fort Nelson, 1; E side Minaker
River, 1 mi. W Trutch, 3; 5 mi. W and 3 mi. N Fort St. John, 4.
_Alberta_: Assineau River, 1920 ft., 10 mi. E and 1 mi. N Kinuso, 6.
_Remarks._--These red-backed mice were taken in various habitats:
grassy areas in aspen and poplar forest, heavy spruce forest with no
undergrowth excepting lichens and moss, thick underbrush in river
flood plain, and at the site of an old sawmill. The northwestern
distribution of this species along the Alaska Highway as found by
Alcorn is approximately the same as that found by Rand (1944:44).
Ondatra zibethicus spatulatus (Osgood)
Muskrat
_Fiber spatulatus_ Osgood, N. Amer. Fauna, 19:36, October 6, 1900.
(Type from Lake Marsh, Yukon, Canada.)
_Ondatra zibethica spatulata_ Miller, N. Amer. Land Mamm. 1911,
p. 231, December 31, 1912.
_Specimens examined._--Total 2, as follows: _Alaska_: N side Salcha
River, 600 ft., 25 mi. S and 20 mi. E Fairbanks, 1; E side Deadman
Lake, 1800 ft., 15 mi. NE Northway, 1.
_Remarks._--One muskrat was shot in an old beaver pond on the north
side of the Salcha River. A skull from a carcass, that had been left
by a trapper the previous winter, was obtained at Deadman Lake.
Phenacomys intermedius mackenzii Preble
Lemming Mouse
_Phenacomys mackenzii_ Preble, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 15:182,
August 6, 1902. (Type from Fort Smith, Slave River, Mackenzie,
Canada.)
_Phenacomys intermedius mackenzii_ Crowe, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat.
Hist, 80:403, February 4, 1943.
_Specimen examined._--One from _Yukon Territory_: SE end Dezadeash
Lake.
_Remarks._--A subadult taken only a few miles from the Alaskan border
in Yukon Territory constitutes an extension of the known range of this
species to the northwest. The mouse is evidently rare or irregular in
its distribution since Alcorn did considerable trapping in the area
from which only one was taken.
Microtus pennsylvanicus
Pennsylvania Meadow Mouse
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