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
The specimens referred to this subspecies, vary some in color, but
vary less in cranial characters. Additional adults are needed from
western Alaska to determine how far this subspecies extends down the
valley of the Yukon River. Bailey (1900:24) lists one specimen from
Nulato, as _drummondii_; I have not seen it but on geographic grounds
tentatively assign it to _M. p. tananaensis_.
_Measurements._--Measurements of the type specimen are as follows:
Total length, 160; length of tail, 40; condylobasal length, 26.0;
basal length, 24.9; length of nasals, 6.7; zygomatic breadth, 14.5;
breadth across auditory bullae, 12.5; alveolar length of upper
molariform tooth-row, 6.2. Two specimens from Eagle (Nos. 128295 and
128320, USBS) have the following measurements respectively: 161, 154;
37.5, 36; 25.3, 25.4; 23.8, 23.9; 6.5, 6.8; 14.5, 14.6; 11.9, 12.3;
6.1, 6.1.
_Specimens examined._--Total 34, distributed by localities of capture
as follows and unless otherwise stated in the University of Kansas
Museum of Natural History: _Alaska_: Near Buster Creek, Chatanika
River, 1 (USBS); Chatanika River, 700 ft., 14 mi. E and 25 mi. N
Fairbanks, 4; Fairbanks, 2 (USBS); head of Glacier Creek, Mt.
McKinley, 1 (USBS); Moose Creek, Mt. McKinley, 2 (USBS); head of
Toklat River, 1 (USBS); Eagle, 4 (USBS); Yerrick Creek, 21 mi. W and 4
mi. N Tok Junction, 13; Ketchumstock, 2 (USBS); 9 mi. from mouth of
Robertson River, 1 (USBS); Tanana, 3 (USBS); Tanana Crossing, 1
(USBS). Osgood (1909b:24) records specimens which may be of this
subspecies from the following localities in Alaska: Charlie Creek,
Circle, 20 miles above Circle, 40 miles above Circle, Nation Creek,
and Seventy Mile Creek. Osgood (1900:36) also records specimens from
near Fort Yukon. None of these has been seen by me; they are only
tentatively assigned to this subspecies.
Microtus pennsylvanicus drummondii (Audubon and Bachman)
_Arvicola drummondii_ Audubon and Bachman, Quadr. North Amer.,
3:166, 1854. (Type, by subsequent designation, from vicinity of
Jasper House, Alberta.)
_Microtus pennsylvanicus drummondii_ Hollister, Canadian Alp. Jour.,
Special Number, p. 23, February 17, 1913.
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