214 FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM ZOOLOGY, VOL. i. 



These examples agree very well with Allen's description of the 

 species. 



44. Lepus cinerascens. 



Lepus cinerascens. Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. iii., 

 1890-91, p. 159. 



Four examples from San Antonio, San Bernardino Co. The 

 type came from Los Angeles Co. 



ORDER CARNIVORA 

 FAMILY PROCYONID^:. 



45. Bassariscus astutus raptor. 



Bassaris raptor. Baird U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv. , 1859, p. 19. 



Seven specimens from the Snow Mountains, Calusa Co. 



I refer these examples to B. raptor Baird, although in some 

 respects they do not agree with his description. He says of the 

 black rings on the tail, that "there are only five distinctly marked 

 ones besides the tip, and the last, or subterminal one, is more 

 than two inches long instead of about one." There are six black 

 rings on the tails of all these specimens, and the subterminal and 

 the two preceding ones are two inches wide, the white interven- 

 ing being very narrow indeed. Baird further says that, compar- 

 ing his type with a specimen from Eagle Pass, Texas, ''There is 

 no appreciable difference in the colors of the remaining portions of 

 the body." These Snow Mountain examples are very differently 

 colored from the Texas animals, some being a yellowish gray with 

 much black intermixed, especially on the middle of the back, and 

 the under parts are a uniform gray or grayish buff, with the throat 

 buff, or buffy white. One specimen is rufous above mixed with 

 black, and another sooty gray above inclining to black on the 

 lower part of the back. They were all taken in September and 

 October. There is evidently considerable variation among indi- 

 viduals in color, but none resemble the light hued animals from 

 Texas and Arizona, and the tails are entirely different. There 

 does not seem to be much appreciable differences in the skulls 

 beyond what may be attributed to individual variation. There is 

 considerable constriction behind the orbital processes of the 

 frontals in some, hardly any at all in others, but the width 

 of the zygoma is greater in the California examples. 



The tail, while having as many black rings as are seen in Ari- 



