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Life History Studies Of The Mouse, Peromyscus Truei Nevadensis, Lowell S. Miller
Life History Studies Of The Mouse, Peromyscus Truei Nevadensis, Lowell S. Miller
Theses and Dissertations
Peromyscus truel's a fairly common inhabitant of the upper sonaranlife zone of the Western States. It is an excellent laboratory anlmal with the limitation that captivity must be accompanied by forced activlty, in order to keep the animals within the limits of normal activity. This mouse is polyestrous and breeds from early spring to late fall. Observations have shown pregnancy in late September and in early February. It is the writer's belief that ovulation in the ovary occurs only when copulation has taken lace, because corpora lutea has only been found in pregnant or lactating females. The evidence is scanty …
A Seasonal Study Of Food Of Some Birds Of The Wasatch Chaparral, Herbert H. Frost
A Seasonal Study Of Food Of Some Birds Of The Wasatch Chaparral, Herbert H. Frost
Theses and Dissertations
A seasonal change occurred in the type of food consumed by the birds studied. Plant food was more important in the winter than in the summer. Animal food, except in one species, was found to be more important during the summer months. The most important plant foods determined by frequency and listed in order of their abundance were: Helianthus annuus, Celtis sp., Quercus sp., Polygonum convolvulus, Amaranthus blitoides, Chenopodium album, and Amaranthus graecizans. The most important animal foods based on occurance in stomachs examined were: Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera larvae, Orthoptera, Undetermined larvae, Diptera, Homoptera, Coleoptera larvae, Araneae, and Hemiptera. Seventeen …