Female. General appearance pale yellowish suffused with red- 

 dish brown. Upper parts and Banks jellowish buff, hairs tipped with 

 amber brown, darker on dorsal area, and almost blackish brown on 

 the rump. Head and back of neck as in the male. Ears like the 

 back outside, inside buff along the margin. Pectoral band, under 

 parts, feet and tail like the male. 



Measurements. Male. Total length, 540; tail, 75; hind foot, 

 no; ears from notch, 6g. 



Female. Total length, 560: tail, 86; hind foot, no. 



425. palustris. {Lepus), Bachm. Journ. Acad. Phil., 1837, p. 194, 

 pis. 15, 16. 



doiiglasi, Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat Hist., 1837, p. 586. 



Type locality. South Carolina? 



Geogr. Distr. North Carolina to Florida, westward through the 

 Gulf States to Texas; south to Yucatan. 



Genl. Char. Size oi L. /. malliirus, tail shorter: ears broader, 

 more rounded; head larger; nails of toes exposed; incisors and molars 

 broader and heavier. 



Color. Above yellowish brown, tinged with rufous or rusty (the 

 lattt-r especiallj' on the rump and outside of legs), and heavily shaded 

 with black: beneath grayish white; breast and sides yellowish brown; 

 chin gravish white; throat brownish gray; ear grayish rufous lined 

 with black. Tail above rufous and black, beneath grayish white. 

 Soles brownish. 



Measurements. Total length, 444: tail vertebra\ 38; hind foot, 

 88; ear, 64. 



a .—paludicola. {/.e/us), Miller li Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 

 1894, p. 105. 



Type locality. Fort Island, near Crystal River, Florida. 



Geogr. Distr. Southern Florida. 



Genl. Char. Similar to L. palustris, hind foot shorter, ear shorter, 

 color darker, more rufous. Rostrum short, broad. 



Color. Above russet lined heavily with black, the latter pre- 

 dominating on back and sides of the head and neck; nape patch rus- 

 set; beneath smoky gray; lower part of flanks light cinnamon rufous; 

 pectoral band wood brown; ears dark russet, bordered anteriorly with 

 white and an inner line of black; feet above pale russet, soles seal 

 brown. 



Measurements. Total length, 438; tail vertebra-, 35: hind foot, 84; 

 ear, 4.5: (dried skin). 



