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Prairie Gopher
Also called: Pocket Gopher.
- Length
- 10 inches.
- Description
- Dark, pinkish-brown, inclining to chestnut in some specimens, but with no fulvous tints. Darker on the middle of the back; under surface slightly lighter, but not distinctly so as in the Georgia gopher; hair on the feet white; tail hairy, but scantily so toward the tip; hair of basal half brown, terminal half white.
- Range
- Mississippi Valley, from North Dakota to eastern Kansas and southern Missouri and including southern Wisconsin and most of Illinois.
The general appearance and habits of this animal are similar to those of the preceding species. Farther South and West are several other gophers, while from the Plains to the Pacific are found the gray gopher and its allies with ungrooved front teeth, but otherwise much like the animals above described.