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Florida Deer Mouse

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Length
8.60 inches.
Description
Ears very large, nearly naked, hind feet very large, tail relatively short, sparsely haired. Colour bright tawny above, with black hairs sprinkled over the back and head, a black ring around the eye and black spot at the base of the whiskers. Underparts pure white, extreme base of fur gray.
Range
Florida peninsula.

This is the largest and probably most beautiful eastern Peromyscus and is entirely restricted to Florida. Its size, together with its very large ears, will serve to distinguish it at once.

Mr. Bangs says of this species: "It lives only in the higher sandy ridges where there is plenty of black jack oak and where the bare white sand is in places covered by scattered patches of scrub palmetto. It is the characteristic small mammal of such places commonly known as 'black jack ridges' and I have never found it elsewhere."