Microtus miurus Osgood, 1901 . N. Am. Fauna, 21:64.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., Alaska, Cook Inlet, Turnagain Arm, Mtns, near Hope City, head of Bear Creek .

DISTRIBUTION: W. Alaska (U.S.A.) east to extreme W. Northwest Territories and south to S.W. Yukon (Canada).

COMMENT: Subgenus Stenocranius; see Anderson, 1960:200; placed by Rausch, 1964, Z. Saugetierk., 29:343-358, and Rausch and Rausch, 1968, Z. Saugetierk., 33:65-99, in gregalis; reinstated as a species by Fedyk, 1970, Acta Theriol., 15: 143-152. Regarded as conspecific with abbreviatus by MLJ.