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Title: Natural History of the Brush Mouse (Peromyscus boylii) in Kansas With Description of a New Subspecies

Author: Charles A. Long

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Language: English

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Volume 14, No. 6, pp. 99-110, 1 fig.

December 29, 1961

Natural History of the Brush Mouse
(Peromyscus boylii) in Kansas
With Description of a New Subspecies

BY

CHARLES A. LONG

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE
1961

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch,
Theodore H. Eaton, Jr.

Volume 14, No. 6, pp. 99-110, 1 fig.
Published December 29, 1961

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY
JEAN M. NEIBARGER, STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1961

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Natural History of the Brush Mouse (Peromyscus boylii) in Kansas With
Description of a New Subspecies

BY

CHARLES A. LONG

In order to determine the geographic distribution of the brush mouse in
the state, 15 localities, chosen on the basis of suitable habitat, were
investigated by means of snap-trapping in the winter and spring of 1959,
spring of 1960, and winter and spring of 1961. Variation in specimens
obtained by me and in other specimens in the Museum of Natural History,
The University of Kansas, was analyzed. Captive mice from Cherokee
County, Kansas, were observed almost daily from March 27, 1960, to June
1, 1961. Captive mice from Chautauqua and Cowley counties were studied
briefly. Contents of 38 stomachs of brush mice were analyzed, and
diet-preferences of t