NORTH AMERICAN RECENT MAMMALS. 463 



Subgenus SYLVILAGUS Gray. (Cottontails.) 



1897. Microlagus Teouessart, Cat. Mamm. viv. foss., p. 660. 

 Type, Lepus cinerascens Allen. 



*Sylvilagus floridanus floridanus (Allen). 



1890. Lepus sylvaticus floridanus Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 3, p. 160. October 8, 1890. 



1904. Sylvilaqus floridanus Lyon, Smiths. Misc. Coll., vol. 45, 

 p. 322. June 15, 1904. 



Type Locality. — Sebastian River, Brevard County, Florida. 



Range. — All of peninsular Florida (including coastal islands) 

 south of Sebastia,n River and thence northward along the coast 

 to St. Augustine on the east side, and to an unknown distance 

 on the west side. Vertical range from sea level up to about 

 100 feet altitude; zonal range mainly lower Austral. 



*Sylvilagus floridanus mallurus (Thomas). 



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

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



1898. L[epu^] n[uttalli] mallurus Thomas, Ann. and Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., ser. 7, vol. 2, p. 320. October, 1898. 



1904. Sylvilagus floridanus mallurus Lyon, Smiths. Misc. C<>1I., 

 vol. 45, p. 323. June 15, 1904. 



Type Locality. — Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. 



Range. — Mainly east of Allegheny Mountains from Long Island 

 and the lower Hudson Valley in extreme southeastern New 

 York south through New Jersey, Delaware, eastern Pennsyl- 

 vania, eastern West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, North and 

 South Carolina, Georgia, except northwestern part, and west 

 along Gulf coast to near Mobile Bay, and Alabama; also north- 

 western central parts of Florida south to about Lake Julian, 

 Polk County. Vertical range from near sea level in North 

 Carolina up to about 6,000 feet on Roan Mountain; zonal range 

 from lower austral up through transition zone, mainly upper 

 austral. 



t*Sylvilagus floridanus hitchensi Mearns. 



1911. Sylvilagus floridanus hitchensi Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., vol. 39, p. 227. January 9, 1911. 

 Type Locality. — Smiths Island, Northampton County, Virginia. 



*Sylvilagus floridanus mearnsii (^Ulcn). 



1894. Lepus sylvaticus mearnsii Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 



Hist., vol. 6, p. 171. May 31, 1894. 

 1904. Sylvilagus floridanus mearnsi Lyon, Smiths. Misc. Coll., 



vol. 45, p. 336. June 15, 1904. 

 Type Locality. — Fort Snelling, Hennepin County, Minnesota. 



