CONY or PIKA, Ochotona collaris 



Range. — Central and soutliern Alaska and 

 Yukon. 



Habitat. — Rock i^iles and talus slopes, usually 

 at higher elevations above timberline. 



Related s]>ec/es. — Type locality of coNar/s is 

 near the head of the Tanana Eiver, about 200 miles 

 south of Fort Yukon. Some regard this as a race 

 of Oclwtona princeps, which ranges widely 

 through the Rocky Mountain and Sierra Nevada 

 ranges further south. However, the ranges of the 

 two have been separated since the Pleistocene, and 

 there seems to be sound basis for regarding them 

 as distinct species. 



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