84 Nelson Descriptions of New North American Rabbits. 



Collection), from San Jose Island, Gulf of California, Mexico; collected 

 by J. E. McLellan, August 2, 1895. 



Geographic distribution. San Jose Island, Gulf of California, Mexico. 



Specific characters. Size ol Sylvilagus bachmani cinerascens ; ears larger 

 and color much paler. 



Measurements of type. Total length, 339; tail vertebrae, 44; hind foot, 

 73; length of ears from notch, in dried skin, 03. 



Sylvilagus bachmani exiguus subsp. nov. 



LOWER CALIFORNIA BRUSH RABBIT. 



Type No. 139,607, adult male, U. S. National Museum (Biological Survey 

 Collection), from Yubay, central Lower California, Mexico; collected by 

 E. W. Nelson and E. A. Goldman, September 19, 1905. 



Geographic distribution. The arid middle part of the Peninsula of 

 Lower California, Mexico. 



Subspecific characters. Similar in size to cinerascens but differs from 

 that form in its much longer ears, larger bullse and well marked gray 

 rump patch. 



Measurements of type. Total length, 315; tail vertebrae, 32 ; hind foot, 

 68; length of ears from notch in dried skin, 64. 



