452 BULLETIN 128, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



t*Lepus townsendii sierrae — Continued. 



1915. Lepus townsendii sierrse Hollister, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

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



Type Locality. — Hope Valley, Alpine County, California. 



Range. — In summer, high slopes of Sierra Nevada of Califor- 

 nia, probably from Mount Shasta south to Mount Whitney; in 

 winter, ranging down the east slope to Mono Lake region on 

 the sagebrush plains of eastern California. Vertical range in 

 summer from about 9,000 to over 12,000 feet; zonal range, 

 boreal. 



*Lepus americanus americanus Erxleben. (American Varying 

 Hare.) 



1777. [Lepus] americanus Erxleben, Syst. Regni Anim., vol. 1, 

 p. 330. 



1885. Lepus americanus americanus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 7 (1884), p. 601. 1885. 



Type Locality. — Hudson Bay, Canada. 



Range. — Region about southern end of Hudson Bay, including 

 southern Keewatin; southeastern Mackenzie; most of Sas- 

 katchewan; Manitoba; east through northern Ontario (includ- 

 ing Isle Royale and Michipicoten Island, Lake Superior) ; 

 northern Quebec; all of Ungava except extreme northern 

 part; Labrador; south in the United States in all of Michigan 

 north of Saginaw (except western half of northern peninsula) , 

 and west in an isolated colony on the Bighorn Mountains, 

 Wyoming. Vertical range, from sea level at Hudson Bay to 

 about 2,000 feet near Lake Superior and 10,000 feet in the 

 Bighorn Mountams of Wyoming; zonal range, mainly Cana- 

 dian. 



* Lepus americanus struthopus Bangs. 



1898. Lepus americanus struthopus Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, vol. 12, p. 81. March 24, 1898. 



Type Locality. — Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada. 



Range, — Maine, east of Penobscot River, Nova Scotia, New 

 Brunswick, eastern Quebec (south of lower St. Lawrence and 

 including Magdalen Islands), and Newfoundland. Vertical 

 range, from sea level up to over 2,500 feet altitude in New 

 Bninswick; zonal range, Canadian. 



*Lepus americanus virginianus (Harlan). 



1825. Lepus vinjinianus IL\.rlan, Fauna Americana, p. 196. 

 1875. [Lepus americanus] var. virginianus Allen, Proc. Boston 



Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 17, p. 431. 

 1885. Lepus americanus virginianus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., vol. 7 (1884), p. 601. 1885. 



