Apache Pocket Mouse 
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Type locality.— Kinney Ranch, Bitter Creek, Sweetwater County, 
Wyoming (J. A. Loring; May 14, 1897). 
Measurements. — (From Osgood): Total length, 5.3; tail vert., 
2.5 ; hind foot, 0.7. 
Description. — (From specimen taken at Kinney Ranch, Sweet- 
water Co., Wyo., May 12, topotype, B. S. No. 87905): Above a 
grayish buff, moderately lined with black, except a lateral line; 
under parts white; tail buffy. This species is about as dark as 
■ftavescens, but looks grayer, and has the tail buffy, not whitish or 
gray. 
Distribution. — The Beautiful Pocket Mouse is positively known 
only from the type locality and vicinity, Kinney Ranch, Bitter Creek, 
Sweetwater County, Wyoming. It has been included tentatively 
among the mammals of Colorado because both Cary and Warren found 
evidences of Pocket Mice in the Snake River country in western 
Routt County, and this is the species whose range is nearest to 
that locality. That this supposition is probably correct is strength- 
ened by the fact that two other species of mammals, the Cinnamon 
Woodrat and Wortman's Ground Squirrel, having the same type 
locality, have been taken in Routt County. 
Habits. — The signs of these animals referred to above 
were seen about bunches of prickly pear cactus. 
Perognathus apache (named for Apache County, or the 
Indians of that name). Apache Pocket Mouse. 
Perognathus apache Merriam, N . A. Fauna, No. i, p. 14 (1889). 
Type locality. — Keam Caiion, Apache County, Arizona. 
Measurements. — (From Osgood): Total length, 5.5; tail vert., 
2.65 ; hind foot, 0.7. 
Description. — (From a specimen taken at Keam Canon, Arizona, 
Aug. 3, 1894; A. K. Fisher): Above bright buff with rufous tinge, 
very sparsely and finely lined with black; under parts white; upper 
side tail buffy gray, paler below. The rufous-tinged buff color, 
with but little black lining, at once distinguishes this from all other 
Colorado species. Specimens from Bedrock and Coventry, south- 
western Montrose County, are somewhat different, being very dark, 
blackish almost, on the back, with clear, bright rufous- tinged buff 
on the sides — a color phase akin to that of the Golden Pocket 
Gopher and Moki Kangaroo Rat from the same localities. 
Distribution. — The Apache Pocket Mouse is found in eastern 
Arizona, western New Mexico, southern Utah, and southwestern 
Colorado. In Colorado it has been taken at Balzac, Garfield 
