where lead color at base. Beneath dusky gray, sometimes whitish; 

 nape rufous; tail black, hairs tipped with pale brown. 



Measunments. Total length, 340; tail vertebra?, 30; hind foot, 

 75; ear, 61. 



e,—alacer. (L,/>us), Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1896, p. 136. 



Type- locality. Stilwell, Indian Territory. 



Gi'ogr. Distr. Missouri south to Indian and Oklahoma Territo- 

 ries, limits of range unknown. 



Gcnl. Char. Size of L. f. bachiiiani, but darker in color; audital 

 bullae smaller. 



Color. Above reddish brown, lined with black; nape and upper 

 surface of legs cinnamon rufous; sides and rump wood brown; pec- 

 toral band wood brown; rest of under parts white. 



Measurements. Total length, 370; tail vertebrae, 50; hind foot, 

 95; ear, 73. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 67.2; zygomatic breadth, 

 34- 

 f.--ubericolor. {Lrpus), Miller, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1899, 



P- 383- 



Type locality. Beaverton, Oregon. 



Geogr. Distr. Northwestern Oregon, limits of range unknown. 



Genl. Char. Darker and redder than L. f. bachmani. 



Color. Grizzled brown and black, darkest on the back; nape 

 chestnut; ear blackish, sprinkled with broccoli brown and frosted on 

 the inside and at base. Edge of ear wood brown; chin, upper part 

 of throat and belly cream buff. Feet brown. Tail above brown and 

 black, beneath white. 



Measurements. Total length, 280; tail vertebrae, 15; hind foot, 75; 

 ear from crown, 55. 



g.—chapmani . {Lepus), Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1899, p. 12. 



Type locality. Corpus Christi, Texas. 



Geogr. Distr. Texas, common in chaparral region south of 

 Bexar county. 



Genl. Char. Size small; sides and rump whitish gray. 



Color. Above yellowish brown and black, becoming grayish on 

 lower part of rump; sides paler and grayer; nape rufous, grading into 

 dark chestnut between shoulders; fore feet fulvous; hind feet whitish 

 above, pale fulvous on sides. Tail above dark gray, hairs tipped 

 with buff, beneath white. Ears yellowish brown, blackish on edge at 

 tip, fringe white. 



Measurements. Total length, 407; tail vertebrae, 50; hind foot, 92; 

 ear from notch (skin), 55. 



