The Project Gutenberg EBook of Additional Records and Extensions of Known
Ranges of Mammals from Utah, by Stephen D. Durrant and M. Raymond Lee and Richard M. Hansen

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

Title: Additional Records and Extensions of Known Ranges of Mammals from Utah

Author: Stephen D. Durrant
M. Raymond Lee
Richard M. Hansen

Release Date: March 1, 2010 [EBook #31458]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RANGES OF MAMMALS FROM UTAH ***

Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Diane Monico, and
the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
http://www.pgdp.net

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Volume 9, No. 2, pp. 69-80
December 10, 1955

Additional Records and Extensions of
Known Ranges of Mammals from Utah

BY

STEPHEN D. DURRANT, M. RAYMOND LEE, AND
RICHARD M. HANSEN

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE
1955

Additional Records and Extensions of
Known Ranges of Mammals From Utah

BY

STEPHEN D. DURRANT, M. RAYMOND LEE,
AND RICHARD M. HANSEN

The Museum of Zoology, University of Utah, contains approximately 5000
specimens in addition to those available to Durrant (1952) when he
prepared his account of the "Mammals of Utah, _Taxonomy and
Distribution_." Study of this material discloses two kinds of mammals
not heretofore known to occur in Utah, and extends the known limits of
occurrence of many others as is set forth below in what may be thought
of as a supplement to the aforementioned report of 1952.

Our study was financed in part by a grant from the National Science
Foundation.

_=Sorex vagrans obscurus=_ Merriam. Dusky Shrew.--Twelve specimens are
available from the Abajo Mountains and Elk Ridge, San Juan County,
Utah, as follows: North Creek, 6 mi. W Monticello, 8300 ft.; 1 mi. S
Twin Peaks, 9500 ft.; Kigalia R. S., 8000 ft.; and Gooseberry R. S.,
8250 ft. Previously, the only known specimens from east of the Colorado
River in Utah were from the La Sal Mountains in extreme eastern Grand
County and extreme northern San Juan County. These twelve specimens
extend the known area of occurrence of the species in Utah
approximately