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1909. Lepus californicus richardsoni Nelson, North Amer. Fauna No. 29, p. 

 133, Aug. 31, 1909. 



Type Locality. — California (exact locality unknown, but probably on interior 

 slope of mountains near Jolon, Monterey County). Range. — Southern (upper) 

 portion of San Joaquin Valley and surrounding foothills, west to include Carrizo 

 Plain, Cuyama Valley, and upper (southern) two-thirds of Salinas Valley; re- 

 corded northwest to Huron, Fresno County, and to Soledad, Monterey County, 

 south to Tehachapi and Tejon Passes, Kern County, and west as far as near 

 Chalk Peak, southern Monterey County, Calif.; vertical range, from below 200 

 feet (along San Joaquin River, Fresno County) up to 6,500 feet (on slopes of 

 Mount Pinos, Ventura County near Kern County line) ; zonal range, mainly 

 Lower Sonoran, locally Upper Sonoran (Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 

 vol. 40, No. 2, p. 200, Sept. 26, 1933) . 



Lepus californicus benneltii Gray* 



1843. Lepus bennettii Gray, Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur, under 

 the command of Capt. Sir E. Belcher, vol. 1, No. 1, Mammalia, pt. 1, p. 35, 

 pi. 14, April 1843. 

 1909. Lepus californicus bennetti Nelson, North Amer. Fauna No. 29, p. 136, 



Aug. 31, 1909. 

 Type Locality. — San Diego, San Diego County, Calif. Range. — Southern 

 California west of summit of Coast Range from near Gaviota Pass, Santa Bar- 

 bara County, to Mexican border and south along coast to San Quintin, Baja Cali- 

 fornia; vertical range, from sea level at San Diego up to about 6,000 feet on 

 Cuyamaca mountains; zonal range, mainly Upper Sonoran (Nelson, loc, cit.). 



Lepus californicus deserticola Mearns* 



1896. Lepus texianus deserticola Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 18, p. 564, 



June 24, 1896. 

 1909. Lepus californicus deserticola Nelson, North Amer. Fauna No. 29, p. 137, 



Aug. 31, 1909. 

 1932. Lepus californicus depressus Hall and Whitlow, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- 

 ington, vol. 45, p. 71, Apr. 2, 1932. (Half a mile south of Pocatello, Ban- 

 nock County, Idaho. Regarded as identical with deserticola by Davis, The 

 Recent mammals of Idaho, pp. 357, 358-359, Apr. 5, 1939.) 

 Type Locality. — Western edge of Colorado Desert, at east base of Coast Range 

 [near Mexican boundary], Imperial County, Calif. Range. — Arid desert areas 

 of northeastern Baja California, east of Sierra San Pedro Martir and Laguna 

 Hanson Mountains, south to Calamajue Bay, and extreme northwestern Sonora in 

 Mexico; and thence north east of Coast Range through Colorado and Mohave 

 Deserts at least to Fairmont, Los Angeles County, and to Bodfish, Kern County 

 (see Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 40, No. 2, p. 201, Sept. 26, 1933), 

 and along east side of Sierra Nevada to Alpine County, Calif., through most of 

 Nevada, except northwestern part north of Pyramid Lake, most of Utah and 

 southern Idaho, to Pahsimeroi Valley, and east to Phoenix and San Francisco 

 Mountains in Arizona; vertical range, from below sea level in Colorado Desert 

 to 7,500 feet in border of pine forest on Mogollon plateau of northern Arizona, 

 and to 9,000 feet in San Bernardino Mountains, Calif.; zonal range, mainly Upper 

 and Lower Sonoran (Nelson, loc. cit.). 



