Abstract
Cockrum (Mammals of Kansas, Univ. Kansas Publ., Mus. Nat. Hist., 7:169, 1952) listed no specimens of Reithrodontomys montanus griseus from southeastern Kansas south of the Marais des Cygnes and east of the Neosho rivers. He examined one specimen from 21/2 mi. S Burlington, Coffey Co., and another from 21/2 mi. N Toronto, Woodson Co. Twenty specimens (K.U. 68315-16, 72252-62, 72264-68, and 72271-72) now in the collections of the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History from Colony and Welda, Anderson Co., extend the known range of this subspecies approximately 25 miles eastward from the Burlington Co. record of Cockrum. The specimens were collected from 31 December, 1955, to 25 March, 1956, in areas where native grasses (chiefly Andropogon gerardi and A. scoparius) were predominant and had not been burned for several years. The number of specimens in the sample here considered indicates that the subspecies occurs in sizeable populations at least as far east as Anderson Co., and is not rare in the eastern part of its range as Cockrum's records tend to indicate.
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