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Sylvilagus mansuetus Nelsonf* 



1907. Sylvilagus mansuetus Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 20, p. 

 83, July 22, 1907. 



Type Locality. — San Jose Island, Gulf of California, Baja California, Mexico. 



Range. — San Jose Island; vertical range, from sea level up to an undetermined 



altitude on low mountains; zonal range, Lower Sonoran and upper border of 



Arid Tropical (Nelson, North Amer. Fauna No. 29, p. 256, Aug. 31, 1909). 



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 Sylvilagus insonus (Nelson) f* 



1904. Lepus insonus Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 17, p. 103, May 

 18, 1904. (See Hershkovitz, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 100, p. 335, May 

 26, 1950.) 

 1909. Sylvilagus insonus Lyon and Osgood, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 62, p. 34, 



Jan. 28, 1909. 

 Type Locality. — Omilteme, Guerrero, Mexico. Range. — Heavily forested 

 parts of Sierra Madre del Sur, Guerrero; vertical range, from about 7,000 to 

 10,000 feet; zonal range, Upper Sonoran and Transition (Nelson, North Amer. 

 Fauna No. 29, p. 264, Aug. 31, 1909) . 



Sylvilagus aquaticus aquaticus (Bachman)* (swamp-rabbit) 



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



p. 319. 

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



p. 601, Nov. 29, 1884. (Part.) 

 1895. Lepus aquaticus attwateri J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 

 7, p. 327, Nov. 8, 1895. (Medina River, 18 miles south of San Antonio, 

 Bexar County, Tex.) 

 1899. Lepus telmalemonus Elliot, Field Columb. Mus. Publ. 38, Zool. Ser., 

 vol. 1, No. 15 (May 24), p. 285, May 25, 1899. (Washita River, near 

 Dougherty, Murray County, Okla.) 

 1909. Sylvilagus aquaticus Nelson, North Amer. Fauna No. 29, p. 270, Aug. 



31, 1909. 

 Type Locality. — Western Alabama. Range. — River bottoms and swampy 

 woods from northwestern South Carolina (near Oakway, Oconee County; Sher- 

 man, Journ. Mamm., vol. 20, No. 2, p. 259, May 15, 1939) and northern Georgia 

 (Fulton and Franklin Counties) west to middle Texas (Medina River near San 

 Antonio), and north at least to southeastern Kansas (Hibbard, Trans. Kansas 

 Acad. Sci., vol. 47, p. 86, September 1944), southern Missouri (Leopold and 

 Hall, Journ. Mamm., vol. 26, No. 2, p. 145, July 19, 1945), southern Illinois 

 (Cockrum, Journ. Mamm., vol. 30, No. 4, p. 429, Nov. 17, 1949) and southwest- 

 ern Indiana (Lyon, Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 17, No. 1, p. 295, January 1936) ; but 

 separated from Gulf coast by a narrow belt occupied by littoralis. 



Sylvilagus aquaticus littoralis Nelsonf* 



1909. Sylvilagus aquaticus littoralis Nelson, North Amer. Fauna No. 29, p. 

 273, Aug. 31, 1909. 



Type Locality. — Houma, Terrebonne Parish, La. Range. — A narrow belt of 

 swamps and marshes along Gulf coast, nearly if not entirely within upper limits 

 of tidewater, from west side of Mobile Bay, Alabama (A. H. Howell, North 



