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pale brown and hairs tipped with white, which gives the general hue to 

 the upper parts; nape buff, darkest on lower part; top of head like 

 back; sides grayish white; faint brown stripes in front of thighs; rump 

 pale gray ; upper part of fore legs, lower part of shoulders and thighs, 

 and soles of feet, russet; pectoral band pale buff; entire under parts 

 and upper surface of hind feet white, base of fur plumbeous; ears 

 mixed buff and black, edges white; tail above similar to rump, beneath 

 white. 



Measurements: Total length, 355; tail vertebrae, 59; hind foot, 

 85; ear, 74. Skull: total length, 66; Hensel, 50; zygomatic width, 

 32; interorbital width, 16; median length of nasals, 15; lateral length 

 of nasals, 25 ; anterior width of nasals, 7 ; posterior width of nasals, 

 12; palatal length, 24; length of upper tooth row, 11.5; length of 

 lower tooth row, 10. 



This race while having a general resemblance to L. laticinctus from 

 the Mohave Desert, can be recognized at once by the reddish hue of 

 the soles of the feet and upper part of fore legs. It is also consider- 

 ably smaller. The race seems to be restricted to Death Valley, as 

 the rabbit of the Panamints and neighboring ranges apparently rep- 

 resents a different race. 



Lepus 1. *perplicatus. Subsp. nov. 



Type locality: Hannopec Canon, Panamint Mountains, Inyo 

 County, southeastern California. 



Geogr. distr.: Panamint, Coso and Inyo mountains, Inyo County, 

 California. Altitude 7,500 feet. 



Genl. char.-: Similar to L. laticinctus and L. I, rufipes, but smaller 

 than the former and larger than the latter, with the soles of the feet 

 Prout's brown. Ear shorter in proportion to other dimensions. 



Color: Upper parts similar to those of L. laticinctus; rump dark 

 gray with the hairs tipped with white; upper part of fore legs vina- 

 ceous cinnamon; soles of feet Prout's brown; pectoral band dark 

 buff; throat whitish plumbeous; rest of under parts white. 



Measurements: Total length, 380; tail vertebrae, 69; hind foot, 98; 

 ear, 73. Skull: total length, 64.5; Hensel, 49; zygomatic width, 33; 

 interorbital width, 16; median length of nasals, 17; lateral length of 

 nasals, 21; anterior width of nasals, n; length of upper tooth row, 8; 

 length of lower tooth row, 9. 



This race, found at a high elevation on the mountains, is in some 

 respects intermediate between L. laticinctus and L. I. rufipes, both 



* Perplicatus, intermingled. 



