G4 Howell — Notes on the Distribution of Certain Mammals. 



Records were secured of its occurrence at the following localities: 



Tennessee : Henryville ( reported to be found sparingly at this point, 

 probably ranging up Buffalo Creek from the Tennessee River). 



Mississippi : Michigan City (abundant). 



Alabama: Huntsville (common; three specimens); Scottsboro (reported 

 scarce); Reform (abundant; five specimens); Auburn ( common ; six 

 specimens); Castleberry (common; four specimens); Brewton (com- 

 mon). 



Georgia: Lumpkin (fairly common; one specimen); Preston (reported 

 scarce ) . 



Louisiana : Covington (three specimens). 



Lepus palustris Bachnian. 

 EASTERN MARSH RABBIT. 



The western limit of the range of this rabbit is in the vicinity of Amer- 

 icus, Georgia. On Kinchatoonee Creek, a few miles west of Americus, 

 Lepus aquaticus is the prevailing species. L. palustris reaches the coast of 

 Alabama, where it is al)undant in the wet salt marslies bordering Mobile 

 Bay. In central (leorgia the same species lives under a very difierent 

 environment — in the comparatively dry, open swamps which are found in 

 the shallow depressions in the pine forests. 



Specimens were secured at the following localities : 



Georgia: Americus, 2; Abbeville, 5. 

 Alabama : Bon Secour, 2. 



Lepus fioridanus transitionalis Bangs. 



TRANSITION COTTONTAIL. 



This form, known previously from New England, New York and Penn- 

 sylvania, was taken on Brasstown Bald, in northern Georgia. A single 

 specimen was secured, July IG, at 4,600 feet altitude, and later two speci- 

 mens, taken December 6 on the lower slopes near Young Harris, were 

 received from a collector residing there. These have been identified by 

 E. W. Nelson. 



Lepus fioridanus mallurus Thomas. 



EASTERN COTTONTAIL. 



This form occupies eastern and southern Georgia and reaches Alabama 

 in the Mo!)iIe Bay region. Specimens taken at tlie fdiiowing localities 

 have been identified by E. AV. Nelson : 



Georgia: Abbeville, 4; De Soto, 1; Americus, 1; Lumiikin, 2. 

 Alabama: Bon Secour, 1. 



Lepus fioridanus alacer Bangs. 



BANGS COTTONTAIL. 

 This subspecies is found over the whole of Mississippi and the greater 

 part of Alabama, aixl jK'ut^trates northwestern Georgia as far as the foot 

 of the mountains. Wliether or not it ranges on to the mountains was not 

 determined. Specimens were taken at the following localities: 



