(_Microtus_) _mexicanus_ (Saussure) 13
(_Microtus_) _californicus_ (Peale) 2
(_Microtus_) _pennsylvanicus_ (Ord) 13
(_Microtus_) _agrestis_ (Linnaeus) 1
(_Pedomys_) _ochrogaster_ (Wagner) 41
(_Pitymys_) _pinetorum_ (LeConte) 2
(_Pitymys_) _parvulus_ (Howell) 1
(_Pitymys_) _quasiater_ (Coues) 5
(_Pitymys_) _fatioi_ Mottaz 1
Genus: _Neofiber_ True, 1884
_Neofiber alleni_ True 2
Genus: _Lagurus_ Gloger, 1841
_Lagurus curtatus_ (Cope) 7
Total number examined 184
ACCOUNTS OF SPECIES
Dicrostonyx groenlandicus (Traill)
Figs. 3 and 4
Baculum: stalk elongate, greatest length (3.1 mm.) 2-1/5 to 2-1/2 times
greatest breadth, and 4-1/2 times greatest depth; digitate processes
usually cartilaginous, occasionally lateral processes partly ossified;
basal tuberosities weakly to moderately developed, medially confluent;
posterior profile in dorsal view rounded with rounded posterior apex or
shallow notch; dorsal concavity in end-view shallower and not so wide as
ventral concavity; median constriction approximately 2/3 greatest depth;
ventral part of base in end-view wider than dorsal part; shaft straight
or slightly curved; base of stalk placed dorsally relative to axis of
shaft; stalk spatulate, sometimes with distal enlargement; at mid-point
stalk wider than high; lateral profile in dorsal view sloping gradually
without abrupt curvature anterior to point of greatest width.
The baculum of _Dicrostonyx torquatus_ figured by Ognev (1948:476) agrees
with that of _D. groenlandicus_ in shape of stalk, and in lateral
digitate processes that are small relative to size of median process; but
differs in more elongate, terminally enlarged, bulbar shape of median
process. None of my specimens showed ossification in the lateral
processes, observed by Hamilton (1946:381) in _Dicrostonyx rubricatus
richardsoni_ [ = _D. groenlandicus richardsoni_]. In all of my specimens
the cartilaginous median process was larger than that figured by
Hamilton, or by Dearden (1958:542).
_Specimens examined_: Four from; Point Barrow, Alaska, 52524 (Barrow
Village), 67264 (died in captivity); Brooks Range, Alaska, 50536 (Wahoo
Lake, 69°08', 146°58'), 50539 (Porcupine Lake, 68°51'57", 146°29'50",
3140 ft.).
Lemmus trimucronatus (Richardson)
Fig. 2
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