This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...are now recognized: The animals belonging to this group differ from the voles (Microtus) in being smaller and in having the upper incisors grooved longitudinally along the outer edge. The ears are equal to or overtop the fur; pelage very soft and full. For many years the only known Kansas specimens were those taken by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...are now recognized: The animals belonging to this group differ from the voles (Microtus) in being smaller and in having the upper incisors grooved longitudinally along the outer edge. The ears are equal to or overtop the fur; pelage very soft and full. For many years the only known Kansas specimens were those taken by Captain Goss at Neosho Falls. They were identified by Doctor Goues as Synaptomys cooperi Baird. Doctor Merriam, in revising the genus in 1896, called it, in honor of the collector, S. /zelaletes gossii Merr. It has recently been found near Topeka. The False lemming seems to live in the woods, and its food is mostly vegetable in source. It is known that it eats blue-grass stems, clover, and the tuberous roots of the wild artichoke. Its nest is usually in a hollow stump or log, and it produces about four young at a birth, in the winter. Genus FIBER G. Ouvier. The external characters of the genus are: Size large; hind feet oblique to the leg; tail flattened and fringed with stiff hairs; ears small, deeply buried in fur; palms and soles naked. The animal is aquatic in habit and so well known that description is useless. Five species and three varieties are found in North America, and it is distributed over the entire continent north of the Gulf and the Rio Grande. The Common Muskrat (Fiber zibet/ticus Linn.) is found in all parts of Kansas where there is suitable water for its home. On account of the low price for its fur that has prevailed for some years, it has not been profitable to trap and hunt it, and it has increased in numbers, until it may now be said to be abundant. The animal feeds almost entirely on vegetable food, which is usually found sufliciently plentiful along the banks of our streams to satisfy its wants and obviate its attacks ...
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