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Lepus texianus wallawalla Merriam. Biologiciil Survey collection. 

 Proi-. Hiol. Soc. Wa^h., XVII, p. i:^7, July 14, li»04. 



Iilli ("ot |i§|s as in original description). Skin and ykull. Adult 

 female. Touchet, Washington. September 18, 18SH). Collected 

 by C. P. Streator. Ori^rinal number 271. 



Wi'll-inade skin in good condition; skull perfect, except for abnence of left 

 supraorbital processes. 



Lepus washingtoni Baird. 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VIT, p. 888; this paper was favorably reported for 

 publication, April 24, 1855. 



1223. Skull. Adult. Steilacoom, Washington. April 1, L854. Col- 

 lected by Dr. George Suckley. Catalogued iS'ovember i), 1854. 



All four occipitals, the interparietal, tympanic, and mastoid bones of the skull 

 are wanting, and the ascending rami of the mandible are more or less broken on 

 the posterior edge. Otherwise the skull is in good condition. There should be 

 a skin, no. 280, which can not now be found. 



Type not designated by number, but by comparing the measurements of the 

 original description with those in the table on page 585 of Baird's ]Maininals of 

 North America it is seen that No. yWj must be regarded as the type. 



Genus SYLVILAGUS. 



Lepus sylvaticus arizonae Allen. 



Monographs of North American Rodent ia, p. 349, August, 1877. 

 = SyIvilagus arizonae (Allen). See Lyon, Smithsonian Miscell. Coll., XLV, . 

 No. 1456, p. 336, June 15, 1904. 



84:31^ Skin of adult male. No record of skull, lieales Springs, 50 

 miles west of Fort Whipple, Yavapai County, Arizona. Septem- 

 ber 8, 1865. Collected b}' Dr. Elliott Coues. Original number 

 1563. Catalogued February 16, 1S66. 



A. flat, poorly preserved skin; one hind l(>g missing; the other detached from 

 the skin. 



Type not explicitly designate'! by number, l)ut on comparing Doctor Allen's 

 remarks, p. 882, loc. cit., with the list of specimens in Table 39, p. 840, it is readily 

 seen that 8439 is the type. 



Lepus audubonii Baiicl. See page 288. 



Lepus baileyi Merriam. Biological Survc}' collection. 



I'roc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XI, p. 148, June 9, 1897. 

 = Sylvilagus baileyi (Merriam). See Lyon, Smithsonian Miscell. Coll., .\LV, 

 No. 145(5, J). 336, June 15, 1904. 



56016. Skin and skull. Adult female. Spring Creek, Bigiiorn Basin, 

 Wyoming. September 17, 1893. Collected by Dr. C. Ilait Mer- 

 riam and V. Bailey. Original muuber 4372. 



Well-made skin, in good couditioii; skull lacking right zygoma and left audital 

 Inilla; right mandibular ramus broken. 



