LEPUS. 27 



Order GLIRES 



Family LEPORID.^l 



Genus LEPUS. 



Lepus merriami altamirae Nelson. Biolog-ical Survey collection. 



Proc. Biol. 8oc. Wash., XVII, pp. 109-110, May 18, 1904. 

 93691. Skin and skull. Adult male. Alta Mira, Tamaiilipas, Mexico. 

 May 16, 1898. Collected by E. W. Nelson and E. A. Goldman. 

 Original number 12365. 



Well-made skin in good condition; skull perfect, except for absence of second 

 right upper molar, broken postorbital processes, and two perforations of the 

 brain case. 



Lepus asellus Miller. 



True. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1899, p. 380, October 5, 1899. 

 ffltl- Skin and skull. Adult female. San Luis Potosi, Mexico. 

 October 22, 1891. Collected by P. L. Jouy. Orit^inal number 

 270. Catalogued May 22, 1893. 



Well-made skin in good condition; skull perfect, except for some pieces broken 

 out of ascending ramus of left half of mandible. 



Lepus bairdi Hayden. Cotype. 



.\mer. Nat., Ill, p. 115, May, 1869. 

 =Lepus americanus bairdi (Hayden). See True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VII, 

 p. (501, 1885. 



No type designated. The description is based upon specimens 

 collected in the Columbia Valley, Wind Riv^er Mountains, near 

 Fremonts Peak, long. 110°, lat. 43°, Fremont County, Wyoming, 

 in the first part of June, 1860, by Dr. F. V. Hayden. 



The specimens, excluding three marked young in the catalogue, 

 are as follows: 



/AVf- Male. f[une 2, 1860. Original number 62. Made over into 

 fairly good study skin, March, 19<i2. Posterior and basal parts of 

 brain case broken away and both ascending parts of mandible more 

 or less injured. 



ilfl- June 2, 1860. Original number 63. Neither skin nor skull 

 can be found. 



4;264. Skin without skull. June 4, 1860. Original number 90. 

 Skin can not be found. 



Catalogued November, 1860, except skull no. 38001, catalogued 

 March 22, 1902. 



Lepus arcticus canus Preble. Biological Survey collection. 



North Amer. Fauna, No. 22, pp. 59-61, October 31, 1902. 

 106S60. Skin and skull. Immature male. BarnMi grounds near Hul)- 

 bart Point, about 75 miles north of Fort (Jhurchill, Keewatin, 



