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*Lepus calif omicus bennettii (Gray). 



1844. Lepus hennettii Gray, Zoology Voy. Sulphur, p. 35, pi. 14. 

 1844. 



1909. Lepus californicus hennetti Nelson. Nortli Amer. Fauna, 

 No. 29, p. 136. August 31, 1909. 



Type Loaclity. — San Diego, San Diego County, California. 



Range. — Southern California west of summit of Coast Range 

 from near Gaviota Pass to Mexican border and south along 

 the coast to San Quintin, Lower California. Vertical range, 

 from sea level at San Diego up to about 6,000 feet altitude in 

 mountains to the eastward; zonal range, mainly upper Sonoran. 



*Lepus californicus deserticola (Mearns). 



1896. Lepus texianus deserticola Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 18, p. 564. June 24, 1896. 



1909, Lepus californicus deserticola Nelson, North Amer. 

 Fauna, No. 29,'^p. 137. August 31, 1909. 



Type Locality. — Western edge of Colorado Desert, at the base 

 of Coast Range Mountains, Imperial County, California. 



Range. — Arid desert areas of northeastern Lower California, 

 east of San Pedro Martir and Laguna Hansen Mountains, south 

 to Calamahue Bay, and extreme northwestern Sonora in 

 Mexico; and thence north through southeastern California 

 (east of Coast Range and Sierra Nevada) at least to Mono 

 Lake, through most of Nevada, except the northwestern part 

 north of Pyramid Lake, most of Utah and Southern Idaho, to 

 Pahsimeroi Valley, and east to Phoenix and San Francisco 

 Mountains in Arizona. Vertical range from below sea level 

 in the Colorado Desert to 7,500 feet in the border of the pine 

 forest on the Mogollon plateau of northern Arizona, and to 

 9,000 feet in the San Bernardino Mountains, California; zonal 

 range, mainly upper and lower Sonoran. 



*Lepus californicus eremicus (Allen). 



1894. Lepus texianus eremicus Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 6, p. 347. December 7, 1894. 



1909. Lepus californicus eremicus Nelson, North Amer. Fauna, 

 No. 29, p. 140. August 31, 1909. 



Type Locality. — Fairbank, Cochise County, Arizona. 



Range. — Northern Sonora (Hermosillo) , Mexico, north through- 

 out southern Arizona east of Phoenix and south of the high 

 mountains; also along the border in southwestern New Mexico 

 and extreme northwestern Chihuahua nearly to the Hachita 

 Mountains. Vertical distribution from about 2,000 feet west 

 of Tucson to 5,000 feet near Wilcox; zonal distribution, mainly 

 lower Sonoran, extending up into lower part of upper Sonoran 

 zone. 



