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Title: Comments on the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution of North American Microtines

Author: E. Raymond Hall
E. Lendell Cockrum

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Comments on
the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution
of North American Microtines

BY

E. RAYMOND HALL AND E. LENDELL COCKRUM

University of Kansas Publications
Museum of Natural History
Volume 5, No. 23, pp. 293-312
November 17, 1952

University of Kansas
LAWRENCE
1952

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, A. Byron Leonard,
Edward H. Taylor, Robert W. Wilson

Volume 5, No. 23, pp. 293-312
November 17, 1952

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY
FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1952

Transcriber's Note: The symbol "^" in some numbers in Table I is used
to indicate that the number following it are printed in superscript.

Comments on
the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution
of North American Microtines

BY

E. RAYMOND HALL and E. LENDELL COCKRUM

In preparing maps showing the geographic distribution of North American
microtines, conflicting statements in the literature and identifications
that, if accepted, would result in improbable geographic ranges have
led to the examination of pertinent specimens with the results given
below. The studies here reported upon were aided by a contract between
the Office of Naval Research, Department of the Navy, and the
University of Kansas (Nr 161-791), by funds provided by the University
of Kansas from its Research Appropriation, and by grants for
out-of-state field work from the Kansas University Endowment
Association. Grateful acknowledgment is made to persons in charge of
the collections at each of the followin