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*LepustownsendiitownsendiiBachmtui. (Whito-tailed.Tackrabbit.) 



1839. Lepus townsendii Bachman, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, vol. 8, pt. 1, p. 90, pi. 2. 



1904. Lepus campesiris townsevdi MERR.iA>r, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, vol. 17, p. 132. May 14, Ut04. 



1915. Lepus to^onsendi townsendi Hollister, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, vol. 28, p. 70. March 12, 1915. 



Type Locality. — Fort Walla Walla, near present town of 

 Wallula, Walla Walla County, Washington. 



Range. — Great Basin region, including east slopes of Cascade 

 Range, and thence east to Rocky Mountains, occupying east- 

 ern Washington and Oregon, and north to Fairview, in Okan- 

 ogan Valley, British Columbia; and from the northeastern 

 corner of California easterly through northern Nevada, western 

 and southern Idaho, extreme southwestern Wyoming, most of 

 Utah, and Colorado from western border to summit of Rocky 

 Mountains. Vertical range from about 1,000 feet in eastern 

 Washington to 12,000 feet in Colorado; zonal range, mainly 

 upper Sonoran and transition, but reaches up to Hudsonian in 

 the mountains of Colorado. 



*Lepus townsendii campanius Hollister. 



1837. Lepui^ campestris Bachman, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, vol. 7, p. 349. (Not of Meyer, 1790.) 



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

 p. 601.' 1885. 



1915. Lepus toitmsendii campanius Hollister, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, vol. 28, p. 70. March 12, 1915. 



Type Locality. — Plains of the Saskatchewan, Canada (prob- 

 ably near Carlton House) . 



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

 wan, and ^lanitoba, 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 (Muscatine), 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 

 the northern part of its range. 



t*Lepus townseadii sierras (Merriam) . 



1904. Lepus campestris sierrse Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- 

 ington, vol. 17, p. 132. July 14, 1904. 



