Volume 7, Number 4,
May 1961:
The F.B. and Rena G. Ross
Natural History Reservation

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- Introduction
- History of the Area
- Description of the Area
- Aerial Photograph
- Accumulation of Field Data
- Weather
- Conservation Practices
- Animals of the Reservation
- Nature Trail
- Cover Picture
- Ross Message

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The F.B. and Rena G. Ross Natural History Reservation
by John Breukelman, Thomas A. Eddy and Emily L. Hartman

Animals of the Reservation

A comprehensive list of the animals of the Reservation is planned, but the completion of such a list is still some distance into the future. Most of the survey work thus far has involved amphibians, reptiles, and mammals. Even for those groups, the following list is incomplete. It includes only those species actually collected or seen within the 1040-acre area.

AMPHIBIANS

Garden toad (Bufo. woodhousii)
Cricket frog (Acris crepitans)
Striped chorus frog (Pseudacris nigrita)
Bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana)
Leopard frog (Rana pipiens)

REPTILES

Common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina)
Ornate box turtle (Terrepene ornata)
Collared lizard (Crotaphytus collaris)
Great plains skink (Eumeces obsoletus)
Blue racer (Coluber constrictor)
Rat snake (Elaphe guttata)
Pilot black snake (Elaphe obsoleta)
Bull snake (Pituophis melanoleucus)
Red-side garter snake (Thamnophis radix)
Plains garter snake (Thamnophis ordinatus)
Ribbon snake (Thamnophissauritus proximus)
Lined snake (Tropidoclonion lineatum)

MAMMALS

Opossum (Didelphis marsupialis)
Short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda)
Eastern mole (Scalopus aquaticus)
Eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus)
Black-tailed jack rabbit (Lepus californicus)
Fox squirrel (Sciurus niger)
Plains pocket gopher (Geomys bursarius)
Western harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys megalotis)
Deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus)
Woods mouse (Peromyscus leucopus)
Eastern wood rat (Neotoma floridana)
Prairie mole (Microtus ochrogaster)
Coyote (Canis latrans)
Raccoon (Procyon lotor)
Striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis)
Spotted skunk (Spilogale putorius)

A bird list, including summer and winter residents and migrants, is in preparation but is still quite incomplete.