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Lepus americanus virginianus Harlan* 



1825. Lepus virginianus Harlan, Fauna Americana; . . . , p. 196. 



1875. {Lepus americanus] var. virginianus J. A. Allen, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 17, p. 431. 



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

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



Type Locality. — Blue Mountains, northeast of Harrisburg, Pa. Range. — 

 Mountains of West Virginia and Virginia north through Maryland, Pennsylvania, 

 New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, 

 Vermont, New Hampshire, most of Maine east to Penobscot River and Mount 

 Katahdin (Nelson, North Amer. Fauna No. 29, p. 92, Aug. 31, 1909) ; and 

 parts of southern Quebec lying north of boundary of western Maine (Megantic 

 County) and northern New Hampshire, Vermont and New York, also southern 

 and eastern Ontario north to Ottawa River, intergrading with americanus in 

 southwestern Quebec a short distance north of Ottawa (Anderson, Nat. Mus. 

 Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 103, Jan. 24, 1947) ; recorded also from Ashtabula 

 County, Ohio (Bole and Moulthrop, Sci. Publ. Cleveland Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 

 5, No. 6, p. 173, Sept. 11, 1942). 



Lepus americanus pliaeonotus J. A. Allen* 



1899. Lepus americanus phaeonotus J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 12, p. 11, Mar. 4, 1899. 



Type Locality. — Hallock, Kitson County, Minn. Range. — Upper and Lower 

 Peninsulas of Michigan (Burt, Mammals of Michigan, p. 245, 1946), northern 

 Wisconsin, northern Minnesota south to Elk River (Swanson, Minnesota Dept. 

 Conserv. Techn. Bull. 2, p. 97, 1945) ; and northward into extreme western On- 

 tario, and southern Manitoba (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 

 102, Jan. 24, 1947) ; vertical range, from about 900 to 2,000 feet on Upper Pen- 

 insula of Michigan; zonal range, Canadian. 



Lepus americanus macfarlani Merriamf * 



1900. Lepus americanus macfarlani Merriam, Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., 

 vol. 2, p. 30, Mar. 14, 1900. 



1900. Lepus saliens Osgoodf , North Amer. Fauna No. 19, p. 39, Oct. 6, 1900. 

 (Caribou Crossing, between Lake Bennett and Lake Tagish, Yukon, Can- 

 ada.) 

 1907. Lepus niediccki Matschie, in Niedieck, Kreusfarten im Beringmeer 

 . . . , p. 240 (Kasilof Lake, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Not mentioned by 

 Nelson). 

 Type Locality. — Fort Anderson, near mouth of Anderson River, Mackenzie 

 district, Northwest Territories, Canada. Range.- — Wooded parts of Alaska, from 

 upper Yukon region southwest to Cook Inlet and base of Alaska Peninsula, all 

 of Yukon, western Mackenzie (Nelson, North Amer. Fauna No. 29, p. 98, Aug. 

 31, 1909) ; northern British Columbia (Peace River and Alaska Highway), and 

 northwestern Alberta (Wood Buffalo Park), Canada; northern limit coincides 

 with that of trees; vertical range, in Mackenzie River region, from near sea level 

 up to over 2,000 feet; zonal range, mainly Hudsonian (Anderson, Nat. Mus. 

 Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 101, Jan. 24, 1947) . 



