WESTERN POCKET GOPHER 



and tail creamy white; underparts creamy white Total 

 length, males, 9 mches, females, 8.7; tail vertebra, males 2 8 

 mches, females, 2.6; hind foot, males, 1.22 inches, females 

 y6 Found only on east side of Owens Lake, Cahfornia 

 (Keeler, 3,600 feet altitude). 

 Painted Desert Pocket Gopher.— Thomomys latirostris Mer- 



Somewhat resembling aureus in cranial characters but 

 rather unique m most of its characters. Upperparts (sum- 

 mer) varying from pale buff orange to bright buffy yellow 

 and lacking black-tipped hairs; dusky about ears grayish 

 brown on nose; feet and tail white; underparts white 

 occasionally tinged with sulphur-yellow on abdomen Total 

 length, males 9.3 inches; tail vertebra, 3.2 inches; hind foot 

 1.3 inches A rare species known only from the Painted 

 JJesert of Arizona. 

 Phoenix Pocket Gopher or Fawn-colored Pocket Gopher — 

 1 homomys cervinus Allen. 

 Large in size, pale fawn in color. Upperparts (summer) 

 pa e fawn; conspicuous blackish patch about ear; brownish 

 to blackish on nose and cheeks; feet and tail fawn, paler than 

 upperparts; underparts a paler shade of fawn than upper- 

 parts Total length, males, 10. i inches, females, 9.8 tail 

 yertebr^, males, 34 inches, females, 3.1 ; hind foot, males, 

 Anzona ' ^'^^' "^^"^^ ^^ ^^^ "PP^r Gila Valley, 



Fulvous Group 

 Characterized by tawny color; mammae in four pairs 

 (inguinal, 2-2; pectoral, 2-2). 



^^Ivo^s Pocket Gopher.— r/^omomy^ fulvus fulvus (Wood- 

 Medium in size, tawny to chestnut in color; ears medium 

 Upperparts (summer) dark tawny to light chestnut, often 

 darker along dorsal region which may be dusky to blackish- 

 dusky to blackish on nose, cheeks, and about ears- feet 



V.^lff'^i^A /^ ^^""^f' ^''^^'''^ ^^1°^; underparts a 

 lighter shade of same color as upperparts,' chin usually 

 whitish Winter pelage duller and darker. Total length 

 males, 8.8 inches, females, 8.2; tail vertebra, males 3 o 

 inches, females, 26; hmd/oot, males, 1.20 inches, females 

 1. 16. l^ound m Transition Zone in northern and centra 

 Arizona from the Trumbull Mountains to the White Moun 

 tarns, east m New Mexico to Sierra Grande, and the White 

 and Guadalupe Mountains; north to Fisher Peak, south- 

 eastern Colorado." (Bailey) 



Espanola Pocket Govhei. —Thomomys fulvus pervagus (Mer- 

 nam j. 



Larger in size and lighter in color than typical fulvus. Up- 

 perparts (summer) uniform bright tawny, blackish on nose, 

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