LEPUS. 439 



454. martirensis (Lepus), Stowell, Proc. Calif. Acad. Scien., 2d Ser., 



v, 1895, p. 51. 

 SAN PEDRO MARTIR JACK RABBIT. 



Type locality. La Grulla, San Pedro Martir Mountains, Lower 

 California, Mexico. 



Geogr. Distr. San Pedro Martir Range, Lower California, Mexico. 



Genl. Char. Size of L. calif ornicus; ears larger; color darker. 



Color. Above mixed steel gray and black; sides lighter tinged 

 with rufous; chin and throat yellowish white; neck beneath gray; 

 breast and inner side of legs salmon; belly whitish, washed with 

 salmon; ears gray, apical half black. 



Measurements. Total length, 603; tail vertebrae, 95; hind foot, 

 126; ear from crown, 184. Skull: total length, 96; occipito-nasal 

 length, 91; Hensel, 75; zygomatic width, 41; breadth between orbits, 

 24.5; median length of nasals, 30; lateral length of nasals, 34.5; 

 posterior width of nasals, 17; width of palatal bridge to point of 

 azygos, 10; length of incisive foramina, 24; posterior width of incisive 

 foramina, 9; alveolar length of upper tooth row, 10; mandibular 

 length, angle to alveolus of incisor, 61 ; height at coronoid process, 36. 



