:H'J LEPUS. 



OMILTEME COTTOX-TAIL. 



Type locality. Omilteme, State of Guerrero, Mexico. 

 Geogr. Distr. Known only from the type locality. 



859. Lepus floridanus (Allen). 



Lepns sylraticus floridanus Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 



1890, p. 160. 

 Lepus floridanus Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., n, 



1901, p. 280, pi. xxvi. Zool. Ser. 

 FLORIDA COTTON-TAIL. 



Type locality. Sebastian River, Brevard County, Florida. 

 Geogr. Distr. North Carolina to Florida, west to Louisiana. 



x jlori <l a n ii * mediums (Thomas). 

 Lepus sylvaticus Bachm., Journ. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1837, 



p. 403. (nee Nillson.) 

 Lepus nuttalli mallurus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., yth Ser., 



ii, 1898, p. 320. 

 Lepus floridanus mallurus Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. 



Pub., ii, 1901, p. 280. Zool. Ser. 

 COMMON COTTON-TAIL. 



Type locality. Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. 

 Geogr. Distr. Southern Maine, along the coast to Florida and the 

 Gulf States, west to eastern Kansas, Nebraska, and the Indian Terri- 

 tory. In the states bordering on the Mississippi it grades into L. 

 nuttalli and in Arizona into L. arizonce. In the interior its range is 

 limited apparently by the northern boundary of the United States. 



jlni'i <l mi x nit'di'iiNi Allen. 

 Lepus sylvaticus mearusi Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. N. Y.. 



1894, p. 171. 



Lepus floridanus mcanisi Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 

 1699, p. 13. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M . Pub., ii, 

 1901, p. 280. Zool. Ser. 

 MEARNS' COTTON-TAIL. 



Type h'culity. Fort Snelling, Hennepin County, Minnesota. 

 Geogr. Distr. Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. 



r. I.I'IIIIH ftoriclciTlUS I i'n ii .^i I i nun I i s (Hangs). 



Lepus sylrtitii its triiiisitioiuilis Bangs, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 



1895. p. 405. 

 Lepus floridanus transitionalis Klliot, Syn. X. Am. Mamm., F. C. M . 



Pub., ii, 1901, p. 281. Z'ir.1. Ser. 



