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North American Yellow Bats, 'Dasypterus, ' and a List of the Named Kinds of the Genus Lasiurus Gray, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from sc...

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Excerpt from American WeaselsEven though most weasels are intractable as pets, they have a value to man, as, for instance, when he is plagued by mice. In a field where mice and other small rodents are so abundant as to damage cultivated crops, the weasel is the farmer's best friend. A weasel may inhabit one den until the rodents thereabouts are al most exterminated in an area two or three hundred yards across, in this way the weasel acts as a ...

Excerpt from University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 1961-1966, Vol. 15F. Walker, and Richard G. Zweifel have helped in unraveling some Of the systematic and distributional problems.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to d...

Excerpt from University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 1961-1966, Vol. 15F. Walker, and Richard G. Zweifel have helped in unraveling some Of the systematic and distributional problems.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to d...

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Excerpt from University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 1954-1956, Vol. 8A field study of the Kansas ant-eating frog, Gastrophryne olivacea. By Henry S. Fitch. Pp. 275-806, 9 figs. In text. February 10, 1956.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-...

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Excerpt from University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, Vol. 3: 1951Geologists and oceanographers have shown (see descriptions by Hobbs, that islands of Micronesia are of two general types: arcuate and strewn. The Pacific Ocean is surrounded by rising mountain ranges which are arranged in elongated, near-circular arcs.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at w...

Excerpt from University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 1959-1964, Vol. 12Except for scattered observations at earlier dates, field Work on this study began in June 1953, and was also carried out in parts of the summers of 1954 and 1957. A total of roughly 60 days in the field was devoted to this project. The laboratory section of the study was started in December of 1952 and was terminated in December 1957.About the Publish...

Excerpt from University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 1952-1955, Vol. 7Ecology of the Opossum on a natural area in northeastern Kansas. By Henry S. Fitch and Lewis L. Sandidge. Pp. 305-338, 5 figures in text. August 24, 1953.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten B...

Excerpt from Geographic Variation Among Brown and Grizzly Bears (Ursus Arctos) In North America, Vol. 13Detailed measurements and notes on which the following summary is based are on file at the Museum of Natural History, Uni versity of Kansas, and are available for study by later students interested in geographic variation of these bears. Three facts that complicated such study are an unusual amount of variation, the unavailability of ade qua...

Excerpt from University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 1946-1950, Vol. 1: 1946-1950The history of pocket gophers of Utah begins with J. A. Allen's mention in 1874 of mounds of these animals. For them he employed the name "Thomomys rufescens?" (1874:65). Actual specimens were reported upon a year later by Elliot Coues (1875:251, 256), who used the name Thomomys talpoides for specimens from "Utah" but later in the same paper ...

Excerpt from University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, Vol. 10: 1956-1960Considerable interest has been occasioned in recent years in the eastern United States by large-scale accidents to night-migrating birds. Most accidents have occurred in the autumn. The wide spread adoption by airports of an instrument called the ceilometer, which measures the height of cloud ceilings by reflecting from them a high-powered beam of ligh...

Excerpt from University of Kansas Publications, Vol. 9: Museum of Natural History, 1955-1960Approximately museum study skins and skulls were studied. Most of these were assembled at the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, but some were examined in other institutions.Specimens were grouped by geographic origin, age, and sex. Studies of the role of age and sex in variation were made. Because it was discovered that secondary sexual va...

Excerpt from Handbook of Mammals of KansasBlack Bear Raccoon Mink Long-tailed Weasel Black-footed Ferret Badger Striped Skunk Spotted Skunk River Otter.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the origin...

Excerpt from Collecting and Preparing Study Specimens of VertebratesHead each notebook page with collector's name and year, page number (if number system is used), locality (in detail the first time used), and date.Write full notes, even at risk of entering much information of seemingly little value. One cannot anticipate the needs of the future, when notes and collections are worked up. The following are suggested topics, but do not restrict ...

Excerpt from University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 1960-1965, Vol. 14A geographic overlap of the ranges of A. Hirsutus and A. Jamaican Sis from Guerrero to central Sinaloa is now known. But the two species have not been taken at the same place within this region of overlap.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a repro...

Excerpt from University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 1960-1965, Vol. 14A geographic overlap of the ranges of A. Hirsutus and A. Jamaican Sis from Guerrero to central Sinaloa is now known. But the two species have not been taken at the same place within this region of overlap.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a repro...