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grayish white; median dorsal dark stripe black with Clay Color
along margins; other dorsal dark stripes Fuscous mixed with Clay
Color; median pair of dorsal light stripes Pale Smoke Gray; lateral
pair of dorsal light stripes creamy white; sides Cinnamon Buff;
rump and thighs Smoke Gray mixed with Pale Buff; dorsal surface of
tail Fuscous Black slightly mixed with Warm Buff; ventral surface
of tail Pinkish Cinnamon or Pinkish Buff, with Fuscous Black along
margin and Warm Buff along outermost edge; antipalmar and
antiplantar surfaces of feet Pinkish Buff, Warm Buff or Pale
Yellow-Orange; underparts white with dark underfur. _Skull_ and
_Baculum_: Large but of same proportions as in other subspecies of
_E. minimus_.

_Comparisons._--From _E. m. silvaticus_, the subspecies from the
Black Hills, _E. m. pallidus_ differs in: Paler; underside of tail
paler; sides paler.

From _E. m. confinis_, the subspecies from the Big Horn Mountains,
_E. m. pallidus_ differs in: Over-all tone of upper parts paler;
sides paler; underside of tail paler.

From _E. m. operarius_, the subspecies from the mountains in
south-central Wyoming, _E. m. pallidus_ differs in: Over-all tone
of upper parts paler; sides paler; underside of tail paler.

For comparisons with _E. m. minimus_ and _E. m. consobrinus_, see
the accounts of those subspecies.

_Remarks._--Specimens from near Buffalo, Johnson Co., are intergrades
between _E. m. pallidus_ and _E. m. confinis_ and are referable to _E.
m. confinis_. Specimens from near Sundance (not in Bear Lodge
Mountains), Crook Co., are intergrades between _E. m. pallidus_ and _E.
m. silvaticus_ (Howell 1929:55). Specimens from the Laramie Range in
Converse Co. are intergrades between _E. m. pallidus_ and _E. m.
operarius_, and referable to _E. m. operarius_. Specimens from near
Greybull, Big Horn Co., are intergrades between _E. m. pallidus_ and
_E. m. minimus_ and are referable to _E. m. pallidus_. These specimens
show no intergradation with _E. m. confinis_ which occurs but a short
distance to the east in the Big Horn Mountains. Intergradation between
_E. m. pallidus_ and _E. m. minimus_ probably exists in northeastern
Natrona Co. and southwestern Johnson Co.

Comparisons of specimens of _E. m. pallidus_ and _E. m. cacodemus_,
indicates that, in my opinion, _E. m. cacodemus_ is entitled to
subspecific recogni