pelage

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As a result, contrast often is lacking between juvenal and subadult pelages in maniculatus making it difficult to assign an individual to one of these two age categories when examined in the field.

From Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado by Douglas, Charles L.

Fresh pelages of summer and winter are best seen in first year animals and are less variable than are worn pelages and hence are used as the basis of color descriptions.

From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by Findley, James S.

The subspecies having dark pelages are: analogous, fuliginatus, and subater.

From Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Packard, Robert L.

Subsequent molts, both from postjuvenal to adult pelage and between adult pelages, are less regular in point, or points, of origin, width of progressing molt, and amount of surface molting at one time.

From Mammals of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado by Anderson, Sydney

The color pattern is the same in both juvenal and adult pelages.

From Geographic Distribution and Taxonomy of the Chipmunks of Wyoming by White, John A.