136 Merriam — Unrecognized Jack Rabbits. 



(2) Lcpus richardso^n Bachman, ISoO. A form reseml^ling 

 californicii.^^ but slightly smaller and much paler in color, lack- 

 ing the reddish suffusion, the general tone of the upperparts 

 being huffy grayish instead of reddish l)r(>\vn. This form in- 

 habits Salinas Valley and bordering ranges on both sides, fol- 

 lows the mountains around the south end of the Joaquin Valley, 

 and passes north in the footliills of the Sierra to about the 

 latitude of San Francisco. The type locality may l)e fixed in 

 Salinas Valley or the mountains close by on the west, probably 

 not far from Jolon. It was descril)ed by Bachman in 1839, but 

 was regarded by Waterhouse as the same as calif ornicus, and for 

 more than fifty years has lieen so considered. 



(3) An exceedingly pallid form, inhal)i ting the hot south end 

 of the San Joaquin Valley. Tliis form seems to have escaped a 

 name, and is here described as Lepiis tidarensis. 



The type specimens of both L. californicus and L. richardsoni 

 were collected by the botanist David Douglas in 1831, presum- 

 ably on his overland journey from Monterey to Santa Barl)ara. 

 In fact, Gray gives San Antonio as the locality for californicus. 

 This was doubtless the old Mission of San Antonio, situated in 

 the valley of the same name in the coast ranges west of Salinas 

 Valley, a few miles south of Santa Lucia Peak and a little north 

 of the present town of Jolon, Monterey County. Lejnis rirluird- 

 80 ni inhabits the same region, the western edge of its distriltution 

 joining the eastern edge of that of californicus along a line ex- 

 tending parallel to the coast from Jolon to San Luis 01)ispo. 

 The collection of the Biological Survey contains specimens of 

 richardsoni from Jolon, Paso Robles, and San Luis Oliispo, and 

 of ccdif ornicus from a few miles west of San Luis Obispo. As 

 Douglas states in a letter to Sir Joseph Hooker that he collected 

 in this region and visited the Santa Lucia Mountains in lat. 36°, 

 there is every reason to l)elieve that the type specimens of both 

 californicus and richardsoni were collected in the same general 

 neighborhood. 



Lepus tularensis sp. nov. 



Type from Alila (in bottom of San Joaquin Valley), Tulare Co., California. 

 No. 126,384, adult female, U. S. National Museum, Biological Survey Collec- 

 tion. October 25, 1900. Luther J. Goldman. 



