Noteworthy Mammal Records for Western Oklahoma

Although Bailey (1) included comments on the distributions of Oklahoma mammals in 1905, a report by Blair in 1939 (2) constitutes the earliest compilation of validated records for the state. Half a century later, Caire et al. (3) published comprehensive life history accounts with detailed range maps for the 106 species known in the state at that time. In 1992, Stangl et al. (4) delineated the ranges of several southwestern Oklahoma species. The present note furthers our knowledge of the current and historic biography of several mammals, primarily in southwestern counties. Taxonomy follows Jones et al. (5). Specimens are housed at the Cameron University Museum of Zoology (CUMZ) in Lawton, Oklahoma. Previously documented county records and species accounts are from Caire et al. (3), except where noted. Dasypus novemcinctus. Caire et al. (3) summarized the history of this species recent northward advance in Oklahoma. The earliest documentation for Oklahoma was of one seen 20 miles east of Tulsa, in Rogers County, in 1932 and another in the Arkansas River Valley in Creek County in 1935 (6). The earliest published record of an armadillo in the southwestern counties reported one in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Comanche County in 1939 (7); however, Elmer W. Tyler caught one a few miles northeast of Mountain Park in Kiowa County in 1936 (pers. comm.), and during the winter of 1945-46, Earl E. Shaw and Roy Woodward caught one 3 miles south and 2 miles west of Snyder in the same county (pers. comm., E.E. Shaw). Stangl et al. (4) reporte