Baculum: Stalk slender, greatest length (2.9 mm.) 2-1/4 to 2-1/2 times
greatest breadth, 4 times greatest depth; three well-developed ossified
processes, median one almost 1/2 length of stalk, curved, broad basally
and slightly larger in all dimensions than either lateral process;
lateral processes flattened distally, curved; base of stalk well
developed, basal tuberosities medially confluent or separated by medial
emargination, posterolateral faces flattened or rough; emarginations in
the four adults examined; posterior profile in dorsal view bluntly
pointed or flattened except for emargination posterially, abruptly curved
at point of greatest width; shaft arising broadly from distal side of
base of stalk; in end-view hour-glass shaped, medial constriction
pronounced, both dorsal and ventral concavities deep; shaft having
relatively straight but distally convergent sides; at mid-point of stalk,
1 to 1-1/2 times as wide as deep; tip bluntly rounded, or slightly
inflated.
The specimens from Quebec differ from the one from Wyoming in smaller
size, relatively smaller lateral digital processes, larger more medial
basal emargination, and slender shafts. The baculum of _Phenacomys
intermedius_ differs much from that of _Phenacomys longicaudus_,
described by Hamilton (1946:381) and by Dearden (1958:547). Dearden
states that the three bacula examined by him of _Phenacomys longicaudus_
differ markedly from the specimen described by Hamilton. It seems to me
that in major features the resemblance is greater between the specimens
of _Phenacomys longicaudus_ examined by these two authors than between
their specimens and specimens of other microtines, including _Phenacomys
intermedius_. Neither Hamilton nor Dearden record the exact localities of
capture, the collections in which the specimens are deposited, or the
catalogue numbers of specimens. Consequently verification of
identifications and observations is difficult.
_Specimens examined_: Five, of two subspecies; _P. intermedius
intermedius_, 5.4 mi. S Moran, Teton Co., Wyoming, 3-C-309, collection of
W. B. Quay; _P. intermedius celatus_, four (including one immature
specimen) from Authiernord, Abitibi-ouest Co., Quebec, specimens in
collection of Bristol Foster designated by numbers 2041-2044 of S.
Anderson's field catalogue. Smith and Foster (1957:107) were of the view
that _Phenacomys ungava_ (including the above specimens from Quebec) may
be specifically distinct from _Phenacomys intermedius_.
Ondatra zibethicus (Linnaeus)
Not figured
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