346 LEPUS. 



Lepus auduboni sanctidiegi Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. 



Pub., II, 1901, p. 283. Zool. Ser. 

 Lepus sanctidiegi Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, 

 F. C. M. Pub., IV, Pt. I, 1904, p. 422. Zool. Ser. 

 San Diego Cotton-tail. 



Type locality. Mexican boundary line. Monument No. 258, shore 

 of Pacific Ocean, San Diego County, California. 



Geogr. Distr. Northern Mexico to southwestern California. 



862. Lepus laticinctus Elliot. 



Lepus laticinctus Elliot, Pub. Field Columb. Mus., iii, 1903, p. 

 254. Zool. Ser. 

 Broad-banded Cotton-tail. 



Type locality. Oro Grande, Mohave Desert, San Bernardino 

 County, California. 



Geogr. Distr. Range undetermined. 



Gej^l. Char. Pelage pale; dark band in front of thigh; soles of 

 feet bister; nasals short. 



Color. Upper part of head and dorsal region pinkish buff, the 

 black bases of the hairs showing, giving these parts a streaked appear- 

 ance of black and pinkish buff; nape tawny ochraceous; rump French 

 gray, darkest in the middle; sides cream buff; broad band in front 

 of thighs like dorsal region; sides of head mixed buff and black; 

 orbital ring pale buff; pectoral band buff; lips, throat, and rest of 

 under parts, under part of fore legs, and upper part of hind legs and 

 feet white ; some white on fore feet about toes ; soles of all feet bister ; 

 tail above blackish, the hairs tipped with buff, beneath white; ears 

 externally mixed buff and black, with the edges white; internally 

 lead color, nearly naked. 



Measurements. Total length, 395; tail vertebrae, 62; hind foot, 

 88; ear, 79. Skull: total length, 70; Hensel, 52; interorbital width, 

 19; length of nasals, 20; lateral length of nasals, 29; width of nasals 

 posteriorly, 14; anteriorly, 9 ; palatal length, 25 ; length of upper tooth 

 row, 11; length of mandible, 54; length of lower tooth row, alveolar 

 border, 13. 



a. Lepus laticinctus ruflpes Elliot. 



Lepus laticinctus ruflpes Elliot, Pub. Field Columb. Mus., iii, 

 1903, p. 254. Zool. Ser. 

 Russet-footed Cotton-tail. 



Type locality. Furnace Creek, Death Valley, Inyo County, Cali- 

 fornia. 



Geogr. Distr. Death Valley, Inyo County, California. Range un- 

 determined. 



