346 BULLETIN 79, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



*Lepus groenlandicus Rhoads. 



1896. Lepus groenlandicus Rhoads, Amer. Nat., vol. 30, p. 236. 



March, 1896. 

 Type Locality. — Robertson Bay, northwestern Greenland. 

 Range. — Northwestern coasts of northern Greenland and Elles- 



mere Land. Vertical range from sea level to an undetermined 



altitude; zonal range, Arctic. 



t*Lepus othus Merriam. 



1900. Lepus othus Merriam, Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 2, 

 p. 28. March 14, 1900. 



Type Locality. — St. Michael, Alaska. 



Range. — ^Tundras of northern and northwestern Alaska, exclu- 

 sive of the Peninsula and Bristol Bay section. Vertical range 

 from sea level up to over 2,000 feet altitude; zonal range, 

 Arctic. 



t*Lepus poadromus Merriam. 



1900. Lepus poadromus Merriam, Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., 



vol. 2, p. 29. March 14, 1900. 

 Type Locality. — Stepovak Bay, Alaska Peninsula, Alaska. 

 Range. — Peninsula of Alaska and Bristol Bay district of Alaska. 



Vertical range from sea level up to an undetermined altitude; 



zonal range, Arctic. 



*Lepus campestris campestris Bachman. 



1837. Lepus campestris Bachman, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, vol. 7, p. 349. 



1885. Lepus campestris True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (1884), 

 p. 601. 1885. 



Type Locality. — Plains of the Saskatchewan, Canada (probably 



>^,near Carlton House). 



Range. — Great Plains of Saskatchewan in Alberta, Saskatche- 

 wan, and Manitoba, Canada, and thence south on plains of the 

 United States, east of the Rocky Mountains, over Montana, 

 Wyoming (except extreme southwestern part), the Dakotas, 

 Minnesota to the extreme southeastern corner (Lanesboro), 

 Iowa east to the Mississippi River (^luscatine), Nebraska, 

 northern half of Kansas, Colorado east of summit of the Rocky 

 Mountains, and middle northern border of New Mexico. Ver- 

 tical range from less than 1,000 feet in Iowa up to at least 

 10,000 feet on the mountains of Colorado; zonal range, mainly 

 upper Sonoran and Transition on the plains of the western 

 United States, extending into Canadian on the mountains and 

 in the northern part of its range. 



