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mice, including their own kind caught in traps, small dead 

 birds, lizards, frogs, cutworms, scorpions, mole crickets, or- 

 dmary crickets, grasshoppers, moths, flies, and beetles, in- 

 cludmg the potato bug. In -addition to these, they eat seeds, 

 fruits and vegetable matter. 



TAWNY FIELD MOUSE 



PEROMYSCUS RUFINUS (Merriam) 



Hesperomys leucopus rufinus Merr., N. Am. Faun. No. 3. 



1890, p. 65. 

 Peromyscus rufinus Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. 



Pub. 11, 1901, p. 126. 

 Hesperomys leucopus sonoriensis, Mearns, Bull. Am. Mus. 



Nat. Hist., 11, Art. XX, Feb. 21, 1890, p. 284. 



Description — Upper parts, deep tawny brown, darkest 

 along the middle of the back, and brightest along* the sides, 

 the body color reaching to the elbows and heels ; under parts 

 including feet, white; tail, sharply bicolor, dusky above, 

 whitish below; ears dark. (Merriam.) 



Distribution — Northwestern Arizona to New Mexico, 

 Utah, and Colorado. 



Habits — This beautiful mouse is actually a forest ani- 

 mal, living in the pine, aspen and Douglas spruce woods. 

 It frequents camps and -cabins. 



SUBARCTIC FIELD MOUSE 



PEROMYSCUS TEXENSIS SUBARCTICUS (Allen) 



Peromyscus texanus subarcticus Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 



Hist. N. Y., 1899, p. 15. 

 Peromyscus texensis subarcticus Elliot Syii. N. Am. Mamm. 



F. C. M. Pub. ii, 1901, p. 131. 



Description — Above dusky brown, tinged with pale ful- 

 vous, blackish on median line; fulvous on flanks; feet and 

 under parts white. Tail above blackish brown, sides and 

 beneath white. (Elliot.) 



Distribution — From Utah and Colorado, through Wyo- 

 ming, the Dakotas and Montana to the Saskatchewan Val- 

 ley, Alberta. 



