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a. Lepus eampestris richardsoni (Bachman). 



Lepus richardsoni Bachm., Joum. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1839, 

 p. 88. Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xvii, 1904, p. 136. 

 Richardson's Hare. 



Type locality. California. 



Geogr. Distr. Salinas Valley, and Ranges on either side, and 

 mountains around south end of Joaquin Valley, passing north in the 

 foothills of the Sierra to about latitude of San Francisco. 



Color. Head, cheeks, and upper parts mixed yellowish white, 

 black, and pale buff, giving a mottled gray effect; back of ears, neck, 

 breast, and upper part of fore and hind legs brownish gray ; chin and 

 throat white; entire under surface of the body white, tinged with 

 yellowish on the sides ; soles of feet pale dark brown ; tail above black, 

 beneath pale brownish yellow ; outside of ears grizzled black and pale 

 yellow, edged with white, but not reaching the tip; interior of ears 

 white, becoming black near the edge. 



Measurements. Total length, 481.6; tail vertebrae, 33; hind foot 

 to end of nails, 11 9. 3; ear, 175.8. 



b. Lepus eampestris townsendi (Bachman). 



Lepus townsendi Bachm., Joum. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1839, 



p. 90. 

 Lepus eampestris townsendi Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xvii, 

 1904, p. 132. 

 Townsend's Hare. 



Type locality. Walla Walla, Washington. 



Geogr. Distr. Plains of the Columbia and Oregon in Washington. 



Color. Upper parts clear gray; thighs and hind legs deep gray; 



top of fore leg and foot buffy gray grizzled with black; top of head 



and front of ears gray tinged slightly with pale buffy fulvous ; pectoral 



collar buffy gray ; edge of ear black. 



Measurements. "Average of 5. Total length, 576; tail vertebrae, 

 81 ; hind foot, 147." 



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c. Jjepiis campestt'is sieiTm Merriam. 



Lepus eampestris sierrcs Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xvii, 1904, 

 p. 132. 

 Sierra Hare. 



Type locality. Hope Valley, Alpine County, California. Alti- 

 tude, 7,800 feet. 



Geogr. Distr. Sierra Nevada from Lake Tahoe to south of Mono 

 Lake, in summer. Winter range, east side of the Sierra in Nevada 

 and California. 



