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Lepus europaeus hybridus Desmarest* 



1822. Lepus hybridus Desmarest, [in Encyclopedic methodique . . .] Mam- 

 malogie, . . . , pt. 1, p. 349. (Name based on "Russac" of Pallas, Novae 

 species quadrupedum e glirum ordine, .... p. 5, 1778.) 

 1912. Lepus europaeus hybridus Miller, Catalogue of the mammals of western 



Europe in . . . the . . . British Museum, p. 508, Nov. 23, 1912. 

 Type Locality. — Central Russia. Range. — Introduced and established in New 

 York and Connecticut (see Goodwin, Connecticut Geol. Nat. Hist. Bull. 53, pp. 

 159-162,1935). 



Subgenus MACROTOLAGUS Mearns (black-tailed jackrabbits) 



1895. Macrotolagus Mearns, Science, new ser., vol. 1, p. 698, June 21, 1895. 

 (Type, Lepus alleni Mearns. See Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 18, 

 p. 552, June 24, 1896; Shamel, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 55, p. 25, 

 May 12, 1942; and Hall, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 5, No. 

 4, pp. 45-46, Oct. 1, 1951.) 



Lepus alleni alleni Mearns* 



1890. Lepus alleni Mearns, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 2, p. 294, Feb. 21, 

 1890. 



1942. Macrotolagus alleni alleni Shamel, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 55, 

 p. 25, May 12, 1942. 



Type Locality. — Rillito, on the Southern Pacific Railroad, Pima County, 

 Ariz. Range. — Desert plains of southern Arizona from Phoenix and Tucson, 

 south through similar country to a little beyond Guaymas, in southern Sonora, 

 Mexico (Nelson, North Amer. Fauna No. 29, p. 117, Aug. 31, 1909) ; eastward 

 to Cascabel, Cochise County (Vorhies and Taylor, Univ. Arizona Coll. Agr. Exp. 

 Stat. Techn. Bull. 49, p. 480, May 31, 1933), and to vicinity of Pantano, about 

 20 miles west of Benson (Swarth, Proc. California Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vol. 18, No. 

 12, p. 365, Apr. 26, 1929), and westward to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monu- 

 ment, Pima County, Ariz. (Huey, Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 9, No. 32, 

 p. 362, Feb. 17, 1942). 



Lepus alleni palitans Bangs* 



1900. Lepus (Macrotolagus) alleni palitans Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. 

 Club, vol. 1, p. 85, Feb. 23, 1900. 



1942. [Macrotolagus] alleni palitans Shamel, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. 55, p. 25, May 12, 1942. 



Type Locality. — Agua Caliente, about 40 miles southeast of Mazatlan, Sinaloa, 

 Mexico. Range. — Coastal plains of northwest Mexico from Rio Yaqui in south- 

 ern Sonora (Burt, Univ. Michigan Mus. Zool. Misc. Publ. 39, p. 67, Feb. 15, 

 1938) south through Sinaloa to Rosa Morada in northern Nayarit (Nelson, North 

 Amer. Fauna No. 29, p. 118, Aug. 31, 1909) ; eastward to near San Bernardo on 

 Sonora side of Sonora-Chihuahua boundary (Burt and Hooper, Occ. Pap. Mus. 

 Zool. Univ. Michigan No. 430, p. 7, May 27, 1941) ; vertical range, from near 

 sea level to about 2,000 feet in southern Sonora ; zonal range, Arid Tropical and 

 lower part of Lower Sonoran. 



