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Sylvilagus audubonii neomexicanus Nelsonf* 



1907. Sylvilagus auduboni neomexicanus Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing- 

 ton, vol. 20, p. 83, July 22, 1907. 



Type Locality. — Fort Sumner, De Baca County, N. Mex. Range. — From 

 Pecos County (Fort Stockton), northern Brewster County (28 miles south of 

 Alpine; Borell and Bryant, Univ. California Publ. Zool, vol. 48, No. 1, p. 39, 

 Aug. 7, 1942), and Jeff Davis and Culberson Counties in southwestern Texas 

 northward through Pecos River Valley to about Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and 

 eastward to Abilene and Wichita Falls, Tex.; north through eastern New Mexico, 

 western Texas, and western Oklahoma (Blair, Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 22, No. 1, 

 p. 129, July 1939) to southwestern Kansas (eastward to Clark County; Hibbard, 

 Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., vol. 47, p. 86, September 1944) ; vertical range, from 

 about 2,500 feet in western Texas to 5,000 feet in eastern New Mexico; zonal 

 range, Lower Sonoran and lower part of Upper Sonoran (Nelson, North Amer. 

 Fauna No. 29, p. 234, Aug. 31, 1909) . 



Sylvilagus audubonii parvulus (J. A. Allen) * 



1904. Lepus (Sylvilagus) parvulus J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 20, p. 34, Feb. 29, 1904. 



1909. Sylvilagus auduboni parvulus Nelson, North Amer. Fauna No. 29, 

 p. 236, Aug. 31, 1909. 



Type Locality. — Apam, Hidalgo, Mexico. Range. — Eastern and southeastern 

 part of Mexican tableland from Puebla north to Rio Grande Valley of Texas 

 (from Rio Grande City to mouth of Pecos River) and northward in Texas at 

 least to San Diego (Duval County) and Cotulla (LaSalle County) ; vertical 

 range, from below 500 feet on Rio Grande to over 8,000 feet on southern end 

 of tableland in Mexico; zonal range, Upper and Lower Sonoran (Nelson, 

 loc. cit.). 



Sylvilagus cunicularius cunicularius (Waterhouse) * 



1848. Lepus cunicularius Waterhouse, A natural history of the Mammalia, 



vol. 2, p. 132. 

 1890. Lepus verae-crucis Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 1, p. 74, June 



1890. (Las Vigas, Veracruz, Mexico.) 

 1907. Lepus cunicularius Osgood, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 20, p. 51, 



Apr. 18, 1907. 

 1909. Sylvilagus cunicularius Nelson, North Amer. Fauna No. 29, p. 239, 



Aug. 31, 1909. 

 Type Locality. — Zacualpan (probably in State of Mexico) , Mexico. Range. — 

 Mountains about extreme southern end of Mexican tableland and bordering 

 slopes and valleys on both sides from Cofre de Perote and Mount Orizaba in 

 central-western Veracruz and Mount Zempoaltepec, eastern Oaxaca, west through 

 southern Hildalgo, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Mexico, northern Michoacan, Morelos, 

 northern Guerrero, and northern Oaxaca; vertical range, from about 2,000 feet 

 in Guerrero up to over 11,000 feet on Mount Orizaba and on mountains about 

 Valley of Mexico; zonal range, from upper part of Arid Tropical up through 

 Sonoran and Transition into Canadian (Nelson, loc. cit.). 



