The pelage in spring is described as bright and fresh whereas that in fall is dull and worn.
Individuals which are adult are indistinguishable in color of pelage and in cranial features from comparable material from southern Quebec.
Resemblance in pelage and in the majority of cranial characters indicates that these specimens are best referred to Z.
The pelage of juveniles is usually finer and softer than the pelage of adults.
Variations from the normal color of the pelage are rare.
There is a gradual change in the color of the pelage from north to south.
New pelage then appears posteriorly, and molt continues as a wave from these points over the sides and back with the rump receiving new hair last (see figs.
In the fourth week the juvenal pelageis replaced by adult pelage.
Individual variation in the color of the pelage of animals that are in the same stage of molt or non-molt is by my observation slight.
The specimen is a poorly made skin in worn winter pelage with the skull inside.
As a standard for comparison we have used specimens in the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, in comparable pelage of T.
Although the specimen lacks a skull and tail, on the basis of its dull-colored pelage and dark brown (anteriorly) median dorsal stripe, we identify No.
New pelage separates this area of active molt into two strips on the fourth or fifth day.
The pelage of ochrogaster is coarse whereas pennsylvanicus has fine fur.
The areas last to be covered with newpelage are the crown and that between the ears and the eyes.
The second molt occurs when the prairie vole is between eight and twelve weeks old, and is the means by which the adult pelage replaces the subadult pelage.
The molt begins when the animal is three or four weeks old; at this time the juvenal pelage is replaced by the subadult pelage.
But, all of the latter were obtained in the warm months of the year except one November-taken individual from El Fuerte, Sinaloa, the dorsal pelage of which approaches in color that of the darkest of the evotis.
The pelage of both kinds probably is paler in winter than in summer and may be indistinguishable in the same season.
Quills are no more than greatly modified hairs, and in sorting through the various types of pelage on a porcupine's back, a few examples will be found which are intermediate between the hair and the quills.
Farther south the pelage often has a yellowish or brownish tinge.
The summer pelage is brown on the back, with gray sides and pure white underparts.
The pelage is glossy when compared with the harsh guard hairs of the winter coat.
An August-taken young of the year is in process of acquiring the adult pelage but the hairs have not reached their full growth; it is pale yellowish but not so grayish as the other specimens.
Color of pre-adult pelage in the one July-taken young of the year resembles the color of adults.
In most living species, the pelage is soft and dense, but in one species, Pappogeomys fumosus, the hairs are coarse and hispid somewhat as in Orthogeomys.
C Upper incisor bisulcate; skull generalized; rostrum relatively narrow; length of labial enamel plate of M3 decidedly less than length of lingual plate; pelage soft and thick.
The pelage of Myotis velifer brevis is shorter than that of either M.
More than seasonal differences in length of pelage is indicated by measurements of additional specimens of each subspecies taken at different times of the year.
No change is noticed in the pelagebefore the second molars erupt and become functional.
Excepting the vibrissiform hairs, all of the elements of the pelage have a common feature, the flattened shape.
The patch of glossy aristiforms and setiforms on the back is sharply differentiated from the dull juvenal pelage of the sides and rump.
This parallels the conditions in the pelage of the most spiny species in the genus Echimys, Echimys chrysurus (Lichtenstein).
Aristiforms: The most conspicuously developed hairs in a three-layered pelage or the corresponding hairs in a simpler pelage.
On the other hand the restricted distribution of the aristiforms in the pelage and the white, penicillate tail are points of resemblance to iheringi.
The pelage of the spiny-rats has a large number of flattened, spinelike hairs, especially on the back.
The animals are born with a thick pelage of thin aristiforms and thin setiforms.
As soon as the second molars become functional, the pelage starts molting on the back.
They are longer than the pelage proper, have a nearly circular cross-section and are blackish in color.
The thin aristiforms are still in place but the aristiforms of the adult pelage may be noticed growing under them in an oval patch which extends from behind the shoulders caudad to the hips.
Pelage dark, near Wood-Brown or Cinnamon; postorbital region of skull constricted (about 7.
They noted that the pelage of the venter of the female was uniformly dark rather than the typical Ochraceous-Buff to Cream-Buff; the specimen was regarded as a dark phase of the subspecies.
Juvenal pelage complete and no | Juvenal pelage complete; postjuvenal molt apparent on | postjuvenal pelage not apparent on dorsum.
Molt line about 3/4 inch | Juvenal pelage complete; no sign of posterior to head.
Subadults: Subadult pelage having mostly replaced juvenal pelage; mice often as large as adults; testes of males often abdominal in breeding season; gray juvenal pelage may persist on head of some individuals.
Greater bulk and perhaps longer pelage in adults might provide sufficiently better insulation to account for this difference.
New postjuvenal molt completed in | pelage tends to be concealed under some individuals by eleventh | juvenal pelage longer than in P.
Juveniles have less dense pelage than adults, and probably are affected more by their immediate environment because of their relatively poor insulation.
New brown pelage encroaching on | Postjuvenal molt completed in some saddle and on hind legs; | individuals by end of week.
For live animals examined in the field, criteria based on pelageand breeding condition were used, as follows: Juvenile: Only gray, juvenal pelage present.
In both individuals, active molt evidently had slowed or subsided and remnants of the old pelage (rich ochraceous orange) were confined to a narrow strip at the lateral edges of the body.
All of our specimens are in bright pelage that is fulvous red in color.
Age-grayness seems not to be characteristic; the most aged matrons known have no more than a few inconspicuous and scattered gray hairs, though the pelage of some is slightly bleached or faded.
The infantile pelage is short, brownish in color, soft or even silky, and inclined to curl toward the tips.
The female has the pelage similar to that of the male.
Specimens with worn pelage are conspicuously paler and grayer than those in fresh pelage.
The pelage is long, almost shaggy, and gives the animal even a more formidable appearance than its great size and strength justifies.
The outer coat of its pelageconsists of rather coarse brown hair, beneath which there is a fine, soft, dark fur, which makes its skin of commercial value.
The pelage of the young guanaco is a soft and beautiful fur--red on the back, like that of a Virginia deer, and shading into pure white underneath.
However, the pelage of the legs is hair at all ages.
The color of the body of the full-grown beast is the red of a red cow, but the pelage is wool rather than hair until the animal is well on in years.
In addition the red of the hair is masked more by neutral gray than by black with the result that the pelage is grayish rather than brownish or reddish.
The summer pelageis not completely described in the original description, but is stated to be darker than the winter pelage of S.
Summer pelage usually comes in first on the back or head and moves posteriorly and laterally.
Where some intergradation has occurred the result often has been increased size of the lowland shrews, although they usually retain the reddish summer pelage rather than acquiring the more grayish pelage of obscurus.
Thus specimens from central Nevada average slightly paler in summer pelage than those from the Pacific Coast or from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
Color ranges from reddish (Sayal or Snuff Brown) to grayish in summer pelage and from black to light gray in winter.
Colour, all jet black, andpelage glossy and thick.
Pelage to be thick and glossy, whiskers white, and eyes a deep sea-green.
Judged by: General condition of pelageand symmetry of body.
The pelage to be longer on the chest, and marked with one bar at least, giving the appearance of a Lord Mayor's Chain.
In fact, it is most puzzling and misleading to find so great a diversity of pelage as is exhibited by a single species.
Fur coarse, consisting of the three kinds, of which the coarser piles are very long, and almost hide the generalpelage on the lumbar and dorsal regions.
Pelage coarse, with moderately large piles, most numerous on the back; vibrissae moderately long.
Comparisons were based on visual inspection of the dorsal pelage as a whole.
No marked cranial differences are evident between the two subspecies; the differences in pelage noted by Doutt (op.
On the basis of these differences in pelage and the geographic isolation of the range, we judge that uintaensis should be retained as a subspecies of C.
Four specimens from Silverton (1 adult and 3 young adults) are referable to this subspecies on the basis of color of pelage and cranial proportions but are smaller than either C.
A lactating female taken on August 7 was in summer pelage excepting that what definitely appeared to be new winter pelage was present on the head, cheeks, and below the ears, and molt was evident adjacent to these areas.
Two males obtained June 16 and 23 were molting as evidenced by new hairs under the old pelage over much of the body.
In late March of 1963, white-tailed jack rabbits were molting to summer pelage from the white pelage of winter.
New pelage is pale yellowish brown in contrast to the golden brown pelage of specimens taken in May and June.
Studies of normal moult and of artificially induced regeneration of pelage in Peromyscus.
An August-taken young of the year engaged in post-juvenal molt had new adult pelage in a vague hour-glass pattern in the dorsal trunk region as well as on the cheeks and anterior part of the head.
Ventrally, the new adult pelage was evident only along the midline.
An adult female in summer pelage that was taken on August 4 was inexplicably molting on the sides and over the shoulders.
Molt from winter to summer pelage is evident on some specimens taken as early as the latter part of May, but most individuals from that period and from the first part of June still retained winter pelage.
It was actively molting on top of the head, between the ears, over the shoulders, laterally behind the front feet, and along the sides, and had old pelage on the rump.
Tail blackish or brownish all around (in specimens not having completed molt on tail, white winterpelage may be present); basilar length less than 67 mm.
Difficulties that I have experienced in attempting to account for the variations in color and wear of the pelage of the pika, Ochotona princeps, on the basis of two molts per year, make me wonder if it, too, has three molts.
The molt (post-juvenal molt) from juvenal pelage to subadult pelage seemingly occurs at an early age, perhaps frequently before the young leave the nest, as individuals in juvenal pelage are few among specimens studied by us.
Wear on the pelage seems in general to produce a paler over-all color of upper parts, evidently due mostly to abrasion of the terminal black tip of the cover hairs, but possibly actual fading of the pelageis involved also.
Nebraska, has the entire posterior back and sides still in old winter pelage and does not appear to have been actively molting; the entire venter is in summer pelage.
The subadult pelage is thicker, longer and brighter than juvenal pelage and closely resembles the pelage of adults; it differs from adult pelage dorsally in being somewhat duller and in having less contrast between back and sides.
Geographic Variation Geographic variation, both in color of pelage and in external and cranial dimensions, is less in R.
Nebraska, is in the process of molting from summer to winter pelage, but has tufts of old winter pelage on the rump.
The more grayish venter of summer-taken specimens results from much more of the grayish basal portion of the white-tipped hairs showing through than in the longer, denser pelage of winter.
The specimens from Medano Ranch, collected in late October and early November, are mostly in fresh winter pelage or molting from subadult pelage, and closely resemble topotypes of aztecus in comparable pelages.
Nebraska, has small patches or tufts of winter pelage remaining on the rump and likewise does not appear to have been actively molting.
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