LAGOMORPHA: LEPORIDAE 143 



Type Locality. — Eastern slope of Mount Iztaccihuatl, Puebla, Mexico. 

 Range. — Middle slopes of Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl, mainly on north and 

 west sides, fronting Valley of Mexico; vertical range from about 10,000 to 12,000 

 feet; zonal range Canadian. Recorded also from Monte Rio Frio, 45 kilometers 

 east-southeast of city of Mexico (Davis, Journ. Mamm., vol. 25, No. 4, p. 401, 

 Dec. 12, 1944). 



Subfamily leporinae 

 Genus LEPUS 68 Linnaeus 

 1758. Lepus Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 57. (Type, Lepus 



timidus Linnaeus.) 

 1904. Lagos Palmer, 59 North Amer. Fauna No. 23, p. 361, Jan. 23, 1904. 



(Type, Lepus arcticus Ross.) 

 1904. Poecilolagus Lyon, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 45, p. 395, June 15, 



1904. (Type, Lepus americanus Erxleben.) 

 1911. Boreolepus Barrett-Hamilton, A history of British mammals, . . . , 



pt. 9, p. 160, Nov. 17, 1911. (Type, Lepus groenlandicus Rhoads. For 



status see Sutton and Hamilton, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 12, pt. 2, sect. 1, 



p. 78, Aug. 4, 1932; and also A. H. Howell, Journ. Mamm., vol. 17, No. 4 



p. 331, Nov. 16, 1936.) 



Subgenus LEPUS Linnaeus 



Lepus arcticus arcticus 60 Ross* (arctic hare) 



1819. Lepus arcticus Ross, A voyage of discovery ... in H.M.S. Isabella 

 and Alexander . . . ,ed. 2 (8vo.), vol. 2, Appendix 4, p. 151. 



1819. Lepus glacialis Leach, in Ross, A voyage of discovery . . . in H. M. S. 

 Isabella and Alexander . . . ed. 2 (8vo.), vol. 2, Appendix 4, p. 170. 



1884. Lepus timidus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29), p. 

 601, Nov. 29, 1884. (Not of Linnaeus, 1758.) 



1896. Lepus arcticus Rhoads, Amer. Nat., vol. 30, p. 235, March 1896. 



Type Locality.— Possession Bay, Bylot Island, lat. 73°27' N., Franklin Dis- 

 trict, Northwest Territories, Canada. (See Ross, op. cit., orig. ed. (4to.), 1819, 

 p. 179; and ed. 2 (8vo.) , 1819, vol. 2, p. 151.) Range.— From Bylot Island and 

 northern Baffin Island (Pond Inlet region, Tulukane (18 miles west), Eguksuak 

 (8 miles east), James Creek) south for an undetermined distance on east coast; 

 south in western Baffin Island along east side of Foxe Basin in rocky highlands 

 to about lat. 67°30 / N., where grassy tundra land begins; west side of Foxe 

 Basin along coast of Melville Peninsula (Fury and Hecla Strait, Igloolik, and 

 Ahadzar Islands and mainland in vicinity) ; southern and western limits of range 



M Revised by Nelson, North Amer. Fauna No. 29, pp. 58-158, Aug. 31, 1909. For revision 

 of geographic ranges and marginal records, see Hall, Univ. Kansas Publ., Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 5, No. 10, pp. 170-189, Dec. 15, 1951. 



59 Brookes, J., A catalogue of the anatomical and zoological museum of Joshua Brookes, pt. 

 1, p. 54, July 1828. (Nomen nudum.) 



60 American arctic hares (Lepus arcticus and Lepus othus) revised by A. H. Howell, Journ. 

 Mamm., vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 315-337, Nov. 16, 1936. For discussion of the technical names of 

 arcticus and glacialis see Rhoads, Amer. Nat., vol. 30, pp. 234-235, March 1896; Stone, Auk, 

 vol. 13, pp. 183-187, April 1896; Merriam, Science, new ser., vol. 3, pp. 564-565, Apr. 10, 

 1896 and p. 845, June 5, 1896; Rhoads, Science, new ser., vol. 3, pp. 843-845, June 5, 1896. 



