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Lepus palustris. 



Lepus palustris. Bachm., Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1837, 

 p. 194, pis. 15, 16. 



One specimen, New Berlin, Florida. 



"At New Berlin," Mr. Surber writes, " I took one specimen 

 in a steel trap set for coons, but it was not at all common in the 

 extensive marshes there, nor back from the St. John's River 

 among the hardwood swamps. It was unknown in the section 

 of North Carolina I visited, and also at Catawba, South Car- 

 olina. 



Lepus palustris paludicola. 



Lepus p. paludicola. Miller and Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Wash., 1894, p. 105. 



Four examples from Enterprise, Florida. 



Mr. Surber writes: " If the marsh rabbit found at Enterprise 

 proves to be of this form (paludicola), it will extend its range 

 slightly. I found it extremely abundant at Enterprise in March, 

 though on my first visit in January I failed to see a single one. 

 Being the love season no doubt made them more noticeable in 

 March, for they were then hopping about everywhere, even as 

 early in the afternoon as 4 o'clock, while about sunset they were 

 seen everywhere about the roads and clearings. They inhabit 

 sparingly the sand ridges with the cotton-tails, but appear to be as 

 much at home on the higher land, among the broom grass, as they 

 are in the wet hummocks, where I found them even more com- 

 monly than in the palmetto hummocks and swamps. They 

 appear to me to be fleeter of foot than the cotton-tails." 



Procyon lotor. 



Procyon lotor. (Linn.,) Syst. Nat., i, 1758, p. 48. 



Five examples: i, St. Marys, Georgia; 4, New Berlin. 



This is what I suppose Mr. Bangs would call his P. I. elucus. 

 My specimens are few and consequently I am unable to give any 

 opinion upon the value of that subspecies, but after careful 

 comparison of the skin, skull and measurements of the large 

 example (No. 7,) with others ; from northern localities, I am 

 unable to separate it from P. lotor. I do not wish to be under- 

 stood as intimating there is no valid subspecies of Procyon 

 in Florida, only that the large example does not show it. In 



