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._--Those males with worn teeth seem to have a slightly longer
and deeper rostrum with a larger, more inflated cranium than specimens
of _S. p. navigator_ from Washington, but in other ways resemble
typical _S. p. navigator_. An adult male, with slightly worn teeth,
from Dezadeash Lake has sagittal and lambdoidal crests. All of the
water shrews were taken in July and early August and at the edge of
water in traps baited with rolled oats. None of the females had
embryos.
Myotis lucifugus lucifugus (LeConte)
Little Brown Bat
_Vespertilio lucifugus_ LeConte, McMurtrie's Cuvier, Animal
Kingdom, vol. 1, appendix, p. 431, 1831. (Type from Georgia;
probably the LeConte plantation, near Riceboro, Liberty County.)
_Myotis lucifugus_ Miller, N. Amer. Fauna, 13:59,
October 16, 1897.
_Specimens examined._--Thirty-eight from _British Columbia_: NE end
Muncho Lake.
_Remarks._--The 38 bats were from a colony of approximately 75
individuals, found on the south side of a house. The paper was loose
and had buckled in numerous places allowing room for the bats to
ensconce themselves between the paper and outside wall.
Myotis lucifugus alascensis Miller
Little Brown Bat
_Myotis lucifugus alascensis_ Miller, N. Amer. Fauna, 13:63,
October 16, 1897. (Type from Sitka, Alaska.)
_Specimens examined._--One from _British Columbia_: Screw Creek,
10 mi. S and 50 mi. E Teslin.
_Remarks._--The specimen is considerably darker both above and below
than either of two specimens of _M. l. alascensis_ from Red Bluff Bay,
Alaska. Alcorn searched ten frame buildings in an abandoned camp on
the east side of Screw Creek, for bats and found only the one bat. It
was above some droppings. No droppings were found in other buildings.
Ochotona collaris (Nelson)
Collared Pika
_Lagomys collaris_ Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 8:117,
December 21, 1893. (Type from near head of Tanana River, about
200 miles south of Fort Yukon, Alaska.)
[_Ochotona_] _collaris_ Trouessart, Catal. Mamm. viv. foss.,
p. 648, 1897.
_Specimens examined._--Total 14, as follows: _British Columbia_:
Stonehouse Creek, 5½ mi. W jct. Stonehouse Creek and Kelsall River,
1; W side Mt. Glave, 4000 ft., 14 mi. S and 2 mi. E Kelsall Lake, 13.
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