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Lepus townsendii campanius Hollistei :: " 



1837. Lepus campestris Bachman, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 7, 

 p. 349. (Not of Meyer, 1790.) 



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

 p. 601, Nov. 29, 1884. 



1915. Lepus townsendii campanius Hollister, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. 28, p. 70, Mar. 12, 1915. 



Type Locality. — Plains of the Saskatchewan, Canada (probably near Carlton 

 House). Range. — Great Plains region of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, 

 and Rainy River region in extreme western Ontario (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada 

 Bull. 102 (1946), p. 100, Jan. 24, 1947), Canada, and thence south on plains of 

 United States, east of Rocky Mountains, over Montana, Wyoming (except ex- 

 treme southwestern part), the Dakotas, Minnesota (Swanson, Minnesota Dept. 

 Conserv. Tech. Bull. No. 2, p. 97, 1945) to extreme southeastern corner (Lanes- 

 boro), northwestern Illinois (Hoffmeister, Nat. Hist. Misc. Chicago Acad. Sci. 

 No. 29, p. 1, Oct. 15, 1948), Iowa east to Mississippi River (Muscatine), Ne- 

 braska, northern half of Kansas (Brown, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., vol. 43. 

 pp. 385-389, 1940), Colorado east of summit of Rocky Mountains, and middle 

 northern border of New Mexico; vertical range, from less than 1,000 feet in 

 Iowa up to at least 10,000 feet on mountains of Colorado; zonal range, mainly 

 Upper Sonoran and Transition on plains of western United States, extending 

 into Canadian on mountains and in northern part of the range (Nelson, North 

 Amer. Fauna No. 29, p. 74, Aug. 31, 1909). Introduced into Dunn County, 

 Wise. (Jackson, Journ. Maram, vol. 1, No. 4, p. 186, Aug. 24, 1920) . 

 Lepus americamis americanus Erxleben* (American varying hare) 



1777. [Lepus] americanus Erxleben, Systema regni animalis . . . , p. 330. 



1884. Lepus americanus americanus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., 

 Circ. 29) , p. 601, Nov. 29, 1884. 



1899. Lepus bishopi J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 12, p. 11, 

 Mar. 4, 1899. (Mill Lake, Turtle Mountains, N. Dak.) 



Type Locality. — Hudson Bay, Canada. (Restricted to Fort Severn, Ontario, 

 Canada, by V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna No. 49 (1926), p. 138, Jan. 8, 1927.) 

 Range. — Region about southern end of Hudson Bay, including southern Keewatin; 

 most of Saskatchewan; Manitoba; east through northern Ontario (including 

 Isle Royale and Michipicoten Island, Lake Superior) ; northern Quebec; all of 

 Ungava except extreme northern part; Labrador; southward through forested 

 parts of North Dakota (V. Bailey, loc. cit.) . 



Lepus americanus struthopus Bangs* 



1898. Lepus americanus struthopus Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 

 12, p. 81, Mar. 24, 1898. 



Type Locality. — Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada. Range. — Maine, east of Penob- 

 scot River, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, eastern Quebec (south of lower St. 

 Lawrence and including Magdalen Islands), and Newfoundland; vertical range, 

 from sea level up to over 2,500 feet in New Brunswick; zonal range, Canadian 

 (Nelson, North Amer. Fauna No. 29, p. 90, Aug. 31, 1909). Not native to 

 Newfoundland, but introduced from Nova Scotia in 1864 and now well dis- 

 tributed on Island (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 102. 

 Jan. 24, 1947) . 



