NORTH AMEEICAN LAND MAMMALS, 359 



Sylvilagus floridanus mearnsii — Conliiiued. 



Range.— West of ^Vllegheny Mountains from Lake Simcoe, 

 Toronto, Canada, central New York, central Pennsylvania, 

 western West Virginia, and eastern Kentucky, and eastern 

 'Tennessee, west through southern Michigan and Wisconsin to 

 southeastern ISIinnesota, and south through Iowa to Trego 

 County, Kansas, northern JVIissouri and Illinois, with all of 

 Indiana and Ohio. Vertical range from about 500 feet in 

 western New York to about 2,000 feet altitude in mountains 

 of western Pennsylvania; zonal range mainly upper austral, 

 extending into lower part of transition zone. 



t*Sylvilagus floridanus similis Nelson. 



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

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



Type Locality. — Valentme, Nebraska. 



Range. — Dry plains (mamly along wooded streams) of extreme 

 western IVIinnesota, eastern North and South Dakota, all of 

 Nebraska (except possibty the Mssouri bottom lands), north- 

 ern Kansas, northeastern Colorado, along tributaries of Platte 

 River to base of mountains near Denver, and southeastern 

 Wyoming. Vertical range, from about 1,500 feet in northeast 

 Nebraska to over 5,000 feet west of Denver, Colorado; zonal 

 range, mainly upper Sonoran. 



*Sylvilagus floridanus alacer (Bangs). 



1890. Lepus sylvaticus alacer Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing- 

 ton, vol. 10, p. 13G. December 28, 1896. 



1904. Siflvilagus floridanus alacer Lyon, Smiths. 'Misc. Coll., vol. 

 45, p. 33G. June 15, 1904. 



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

 Oklahoma. 



Range. — Gulf coast from Mobile Bay, Alabama, to Matagorda 

 Bay, Texas, and thence north through most of Alabama to 

 Tate, northwestern Georgia; all of IVIississippi, Louisiana, and 

 Arkansas; w^estern Tennessee and Kentuck}-, extreme south- 

 em Illinois, southern Missouri, southeastern Kansas; all, of 

 Oklahoma except extreme western part, and eastern Texas to 

 eastern border of Panhandle. Vertical range from near sea 

 level in Louisiana up to about 2,000 feet altitude in Okla- 

 homa; zonal range mainl}' lower austral. 



