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Subspecific characters. Size about as in true auduboni but ears much 

 larger and color of upperparts paler and more yellowish bufFy brownish; 

 bullae larger, jugals slenderer. 



Measurements of type. Total length, ,>75; tail vertebrae, 73; hind foot, 

 88; length of ear from notch in dried skin, 68. 



Sylvilagus auduboni cedrophilus subsp. nov. 



CEDAR BELT COTTONTAIL. 



Type No. 148,287, adult female, U. S. National Museum (Biological Sur 

 vey Collection), from Cactus Flat, twenty miles north of Cliff, New Mex 

 ico ; collected by Vernon Bailey, November 6, 1906. 



Geographic distribution. Mainly in the cedar and pinyon pine belt of 

 the southern two-thirds of New Mexico and eastern border of Arizona. 



Subspecific characters. Larger and much richer and darker buffy than 

 S. a. minor; underside of neck usually rich ochraceous huffy. 



Measurements of type. Total length, 385 ; tail vertebrae, 3-") ; hind foot, 

 92; length of ears from nolch in dried skin, 66. 



Sylvilagus auduboni neomexicanus subsp. nov. 



MOW MEXICO COTTONTAIL. 



Type No. 118,477, adult male, U. S. National Museum ( Biological Survey 

 Collection), from Fort Sumner, New Mexico; collected by J. H. Gaut, 

 September 23, 1902. 



Geographic distribution. The Pecos Valley, New Mexico, and thence 

 into the adjacent parts of western Texas and north through western Okla 

 homa to the central southern border of Kansas. 



Subspecific characters. Size about as in S. a. minor but ears shorter, 

 bullce smaller and color much more rusty buffy, or rusty reddish. 



Measurements of type. Total length, 385; tail vertebrae, 59; hind foot, 

 91 ; length of ears from notch in dried skin, 58. 



Sylvilagus auduboni warreni subsp. nov. 



COLORADO COTTONTAIL. 



Type No. 148, (532, adult female, U. S. National Museum (Biological 

 Survey Collection ); from Coventry, Colorado; collected by C. H. Smith, 

 January 4, 1907. 



Geographic distribution. Southwestern Colorado and adjacent parts of 

 Utah, New Mexico and Arizona. 



Subspecific characters.' Similar to baileyi in size, length of ears and 

 abundant pelage but darker colored with more distinct gray rump patch 

 and darker rufous on nape and legs. 



Measurements of type. Total length, 375; tail vertebrae, 51; hind foot, 

 102; length of ears from notch in dried skin, 70. 



Sylvilagus mansuetus sp. nov. 



SAN JOSE ISLAND BRUSH RABBIT. 



Type No. 79,041, adult male, U. S. National Museum ( Biological Survey 



