MAMMALIA 



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States by the gray 7'abbit or " cottontail " which is found from New 

 England to Yucatan. Although cottontails are small with relatively 



Fig. 224//. Egyptian jerboa. (Courtesy of N. Y. Zool. Soc.) 



Fig. 2245. Pocket gopher {Thomomys a'xahnee). (Courtesy of T. I. Storer, Univ. oi 



Cilif.) 



short, weak limbs, they are exceedingly cunning and burrow in cities 

 and towns, rearing families in apparently quite accessible places. In 

 the West, cottontail rabbits are such pests that rabbit-proof fences. 



