MAMMALS
of the southwest
MOUNTAINS
and
MESAS

by
GEORGE OLIN
illustrations by
EDWARD BIERLY

Southwest Parks and Monuments Association
Box 1562, Globe, Arizona 85501

Copyright 1961 by the Southwestern Monuments Association.All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced inany form without permission in writing from the publisher, exceptby a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review tobe printed in a magazine or newspaper.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 61-11291
SBN 0-911408-32-0

Southwest Parks and Monuments Association
(formerly Southwestern Monuments Association)

First printing, 1961.
Second printing, 1971.
Third printing, 1975.

Popular series no. 9.

Printed in the United States of America
Arizona Lithographers · Tucson, Arizona

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

With this booklet, as with Mammals of the Southwest Deserts, we areindebted to Dr. E. L. Cockrum, Assistant Professor of Zoology at theUniversity of Arizona who has checked the manuscript for accuracy.We are also grateful to him for offering suggestions and criticisms whichhave added materially to its interest.

The writer would also like to voice his appreciation to Ed Bierly whosemagnificent illustrations adorn these pages. His is a talent with whichit is a privilege to be associated.

Finally our thanks to the editor and his staff. It is not an easy task tocombine text with illustrations, nor to match space with type, yet it hasbeen done with feeling and precision.

Together, we hope that you will approve of our efforts. If through thisbooklet you gain a better understanding of the mammals that sharethe great outdoors with us, or if through it you should become awareof the urgent necessity of preserving some of our wild creatures, (andwild places), now before it is too late; we shall indeed be well repaid.

CONTENTS

Hoofed Animals 1

Bighorn (mountain sheep) 2

Pronghorn (antelope) 4

Bison (buffalo) 8

Mule deer 10

White-tailed deer 13

Elk 16

Rodents (Including Lagomorphs) 21

Snowshoe hare 22

White-tailed jackrabbit 24

Mountain cottontail 26

Pika 28

Tassel-eared squirrel (Abert’s squirrel) 31

Kaibab squirrel 34

Arizona gray squirrel 36

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