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Pocket Mice
These mice are restricted to the western United States and Mexico and are confined largely to the arid regions, so characteristic of that portion of the country. They comprise two very different groups of animals--the true pocket mice, little mouse-like creatures with rather coarse hair, and the larger kangaroo rats, with immense hind legs and long brushy-tipped tails, recalling the jerboas of the Old World.