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Bull. 102 (1946), p. 103, Jan. 24, 1947) southward west of Allegheny Moun- 

 tains in central New York, central Pennsylvania, western West Virginia, and 

 eastern Kentucky; west through Lower Peninsula and southwestern part of 

 Upper Peninsula of Michigan (Burt, Mammals of Michigan, p. 250, 1946) and 

 Wisconsin to western Minnesota; and south through Iowa to Kansas (Neosho 

 Falls and Marion County), northern Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio; 

 vertical range, from about 500 feet in western New York to about 2,000 feet in 

 mountains of western Pennsylvania; zonal range, mainly Upper Austral, but 

 extending into lower part of Transition (Nelson, North. Amer. Fauna No. 29, 

 p. 169, Aug. 31, 1909) . 



Sylvilagus floridanus si mi! is Nelsonf* 



1907. Sylvilagus floridanus similis Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. 20, p. 82, July 22, 1907. 



Type Locality. — Valentine, Cherry County, Nebr. Range. — Dry plains 

 (mainly along wooded streams) of extreme western Minnesota, North Dakota 

 (V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna No. 49 (1926), p. 134, Jan. 8, 1927), extreme 

 southeastern Montana (Hall and Kelson, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 5, No. 5, p. 52, Oct. 1, 1951), eastern South Dakota, Nebraska (except pos- 

 sibly Missouri bottom lands), northwestern Kansas (Hibbard, Trans. Kansas 

 Acad. Sci., vol. 47, p. 85, September 1944), northeastern Colorado (along 

 tributaries of Platte River to base of mountains near Denver), and southeast- 

 ern Wyoming; vertical range, from about 1,500 feet in northeastern Nebraska 

 to over 5,000 feet west of Denver, Colo.; zonal range, mainly Upper Sonoran 

 (Nelson, North Amer. Fauna No. 29, p. 172, Aug. 31, 1909). Recorded also 

 from Red River Valley north to Winnipeg and locally westward to Souris River, 

 Manitoba (Soper, Journ. Mamm., vol. 27, No. 2, p. 150, May 14, 1946; see also 

 Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 ( 1946) , p. 104, Jan. 24, 1947) . 



Sylvilagus floridanus alacer (Bangs) * 



1896. Lepus sylvaticus alacer Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 10, 

 p. 136, Dec. 28, 1896. 



1904. Sylvilagus floridanus alacer Lyon, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 45, 

 p. 336, June 15, 1904. 



Type Locality. — Stilwell, Boston Mountains, Adair County, Okla. Range. — 

 Gulf coast, from Bay St. Louis, Miss. (Nelson, North Amer. Fauna No. 29, p. 176, 

 Aug. 31, 1909), westward to Port Lavaca, Tex. (Nelson, loc. cit.), and thence 

 north through Texas (Brazos and Henrietta; Nelson, loc. cit.), Oklahoma (Nor- 

 man; Blair, Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 22, No. 1, p. 128, July 1939), to southeastern 

 Kansas (Hibbard, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., vol. 47, p. 85, September 1944), 

 north-central Missouri (Columbia; Nelson, loc. cit.), and Ozark, Johnson County, 

 southern Illinois (Necker and Hatfield, Chicago Acad. Sci., vol. 6, No. 3, p. 56, 

 May 15, 1941) ; eastward through Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi to ex- 

 treme western Tennessee (Samburg and Raleigh; Nelson, loc. cit.) . 



Sylvilagus floridanus llanensis Blair* 



1938. Sylvilagus floridanus llanensis Blair, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich- 

 igan No. 380, p. 1, June 17, 1938. 



Type Locality. — Old "F" Ranch headquarters, Quitaque, Briscoe County, Tex. 

 Range. — Southwestern fourth of Kansas (Hibbard, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 



