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northern Michoacan, Guanajuato, Queretaro, State of Mexico, Distrito Federal 

 Hidalgo, Puebla, Morelos, northwestern half of Oaxaca, and northern half of 

 Guerrero ; vertical range, from about 2,500 feet in Morelos to 8,500 feet in north- 

 ern Puebla; zonal range, Upper and Lower Sonoran and into upper border of 

 Arid Tropical (Nelson, North Amer. Fauna No. 29, p. 122, Aug. 31, 1909). 



Lepus flavigularis Wagner* 



1844. Lepus callotis var. flavigularis Wagner, in Schreber, Die Saugthiere . . ., 



Suppl., vol. 4, p. 106, 1844. 

 1909. Lepus flavigularis Nelson, North Amer. Fauna No. 29, p. 125, Aug. 31, 



1909. 

 1942. [Macrotolagus] flavigularis Shamel, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 



55, p. 25, May 12, 1942. 

 Type Locality. — Mexico (probably near the city of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca). 

 Range. — Coastal plains and bordering foothills on southern end of Isthmus of 

 Tehuantepec, in southern Oaxaca, and thence along Pacific coast to beyond To- 

 nala, Chiapas; vertical range, from sea level up to about 2,000 feet in southern 

 Oaxaca; zonal range, Arid Tropical (Nelson, loc. cit.) . 



Lepus californicus californicus Gray* 



1837. Lepus californica Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist., n. s., vol. 1, p. 586. 



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



p. 601, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1926. Lepus californicus vigilax Dice, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan 

 No. 166, p. 11, Feb. 11, 1926. (Ball's Ferry, Shasta County, Calif. Re- 

 garded as identical with californicus by Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. 

 Zool., vol. 40, No. 2, p. 200, Sept. 26, 1933, and by Orr, Occ. Pap. Cali- 

 fornia Acad. Sci. No. 19, p. 67, May 25, 1940.) 

 Type Locality.— " St. Antoine," Calif, (probably on coastal slope west of Mis- 

 sion of San Antonio, Jolon, Monterey County). Range. — Almost whole of 

 northern California west of main Cascade and Sierran Divides, from Oregon line 

 south along seacoast to about Point Conception, Santa Barbara County, and along 

 west flank of Sierra Nevada to northern Tulare County; includes whole of Sacra- 

 mento Valley and south into northern end of San Joaquin Valley as far as Merced 

 and Madera Counties; recorded east at north to Shasta Valley, Siskiyou County, 

 Cassel, Shasta County, and Mineral, Tehama County; vertical range, from sea 

 level (Grizzly Island, Solano County) up at least to 5,700 feet (South Fork 

 Mountain, Humboldt County) ; zonal range, mainly Upper Sonoran, but invades 

 Transition and also Canadian in northwestern California, and occupies Lower 

 Sonoran in Sacramento Valley (Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 40, 

 No. 2, p. 200, Sept. 26, 1933) ; and northward through open country of Rogue, 

 Umpqua, and Willamette Valleys to vicinity of Salem, Oreg. (V. Bailey, North 

 Amer. Fauna No. 55 (June) , p. 99, Aug. 29, 1936) . 



Lepus californicus richardsonii Bachman* 



1839. Lepus richardsonii Bachman, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 8, 



pt. 1, p. 88, 1839. 

 1904. Lepus tularensis Merriamf, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 17, p. 136, 

 July 14, 1904. (Alila [ = Earlimart], Tulare County, Calif.) 



