436 LEPUS. 



black; broad fulvous band on lower part of throat and breast; rest 

 of under parts and inside of legs white; outer side of legs pale yel- 

 lowish brown; tail above black, beneath whitish; ears outside yel- 

 lowish brown, finely grizzled with black and fringed with white on 

 edges; inside grayish, grizzled brown inside the white edge. 



Measurements. Total length, 565; tail vertebrae, 74; hind foot, 

 123; ear from crown, 128. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 94; Hensel, 

 76; zygomatic width, 42; lateral nasal length, 37; median nasal 

 length, 29; posterior nasal width, 20; anterior nasal width, 14; length 

 of lower jaw to end of incisors, 72; height at condyle, 40. 



texensis griseus, Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 291. 



texianus (sic) griseus (Lepus), Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



1896, p. 562. 

 GRAY DESERT JACK RABBIT. 



Type locality. Fort Hancock, El Paso County, Texas. 



Geogr. Distr. States of Coahuila and Chihuahua, Mexico, north 

 to upper Rio Grande from Maverick and Kinney Counties, Texas, to 

 Grant County, New Mexico. 



Genl. Char. Size about equal to that of L. calif ornicus ; ear larger. 



Color. Winter Pelage. Above brownish gray, lined with black; 

 rump and thighs gray; sides gray, lined sparsely with black and 

 tinged with yellowish brown ; nape grayish white ; top of head brownish 

 gray mixed with black; sides of head and neck tinged with yellowish 

 brown; gular patch grayish clay color; rest of under parts white; 

 legs gray, tinged with clay color; tail above black, this color extending 

 over and dividing the gray on the rump, beneath brownish; ears 

 brownish gray on outside anteriorly, with brownish white fringes, 

 posteriorly white, tipped with black and fringed with white. 



Measurements. Total length, 559.2; tail vertebras, 91.5; hind 

 foot, 127; ear from crown, 152.8. 



texensis micropus. 



t ianus (sic) micropus (Lepus), Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 



1903, p. 605. 

 SMALL-FOOTED HARE. 



Type locality. Rio del Bocas, State of Durango, Mexico. Alti- 

 tude, 6,800 feet. 



Genl. Char. "Similar to L. t. eremicus and L. t. griseus, but more 

 brownish gray than the latter, and large-bodied, with shorter tail, 

 smaller hind feet, and larger ears than either, and with less fulvous 

 along the sides of the body; prepectoral area paler and more grayish." 



Measurements. "Type, total length, 535; head and body, 450; 

 tail vertebrae, 76; hind foot, 114; ear from notch, 133; from crown, 



