of belly reaching to wrists and back of hind feet. Belly white, tinged 

 with plumbeous. 



Measurements. Total length, 385; tail vertebrae, 63; hind foot, 

 85; ear from crown, 78. 



428. holzerni. {Lepus), Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Wash., 1895, 



P- 554- 



Type locality. Near the summit of Huachuca Mountains, Ari- 

 zona. 



Geogr. Distr. High altitude of mountains in southern Arizona 

 extendmg into Mexico. 



Genl. Char. Size large; ears rather short; hind feet long, col- 

 ors darkest of this style. 



Color. Summer Pelage. Upper sides of head and back vinace- 

 ous cinnamon mixed with gray and black; thighs and rump whitish 

 gray lined with black; beneath white tinged with yellowish; pectoral 

 band clay color; nape tawny; legs tawny, inner side brownish white. 

 Ears reddish brown, gray and black mixed, bordered anteriorly for 

 basal two-thirds with white. Tail, above yellowish brown grizzled, 

 beneath white. 



Measurements. Totallength, 415.2; tail vertebrae, 64; hind foot, 

 99.5; ear from crown, 77.8; from notch, 65. 



429. nuttalii. [Lepus), Bachm., Joura. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1837, 



p. 345, pi. 22. 



artemisia, Bachm., Journ. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1839, p. 94. 



Type locality. Plains of the Columbia near Walla Walla. 



Geogr. Distr. Oregon, south through the Sierra Nevada Moun- 

 tains to Texas and northward to the 49th parallel, or from about the 

 Canadian boundary through the Dakotas to Texas, and west through 

 the Sierra Nevada to Oregon. 



Genl. Char. Size small, colors pale. 



Color. Above yellowish gray mixed with black and brown; rump 

 light gray and sides of body whitish yellow, nape pale cinnamon; 

 pectoral band light buff; rest of under parts white; fore legs buffy 

 white above; hind legs white. Tail, above like rump, beneath white. 

 Ears pale yellowish brown, edged with white. 



Measureme?its. Total length, 420; hind foot, 500; ear, 50. 



430. baileyi. [Lepus), Merr. , Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1897, p. 148. 

 Type locality. Spring Creek, east side Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. 

 Geogr. Distr. Bighorn Basin in Montana across the Owl Creek 



Mountains into Wind River Basin, and east into northeastern Wy- 

 oming. The exact limits of its range are not yet determined. 



