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change evidently takes place irregularly among individuals, for certain 

 ones taken at the same place on the same day exhibit in the one the 

 ochraceous buff sides, in the other the dull yellow sides. Any one 

 not conversant with this change of pelage might be misled into think- 

 ing there were two species. 



FAM. LEPORIDyE. 

 LEPUS. 



A. SlLVILAGUS. 



Lepus floridanus ubericolor. 



Lepus floridanus ubericolor. Miller, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien., 

 Phil., 1899, p. 383. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 282. 



Twenty specimens: 2, Requa, California; 5, Goldbeach; 8, 

 Florence; 5, Beaverton (topotypes), Oregon. 



B. MICROLAGUS. 

 Lepus bachmani. 



Lepus bachmani. Waterh., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1838, p. 103. Elliot, 

 Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 281. 



Ten examples: 3, Nicasio; 2, Petaluma; i, Point Reyes; i, Men- 

 docino; 3, Eureka, California. 



This species does not seern to go farther north, at least on the 

 coast, than Eureka, as the specimens from Requa cannot be separated 

 from L. f. ubericolor, and somewhere between these places would seem 

 to be the respective northern and southern littoral boundaries of the 

 two forms. How far in the interior either of the two extends its 

 limits beyond these points, or if it does so at all, I am not at present 

 able to state. 



ORDER CARNIVORA. 



FAM. FELID.E. 

 FELIS. 



A. LYNCHUS. 

 Felis rufa oculea. 



Felis rufa oculea. (Bangs), Proc. N. E. Zool. Club, 1899, p. 23. 

 Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 297. 



One specimen from Nicasio (topotype), California. 



