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of Allegheny Mountains from Lake Simcoe, Toronto, 

 Canada,_ central New York, central Pennsylvania, western 



West Virginia, and eastern Kentucky, and eastern Ten- J 



nessee, west through southern Michigan and Wisconsin to 





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Fig. io6. Distribution of the subspecies of the Sylvilagus 

 floridanus group, north of Mexico, after Nelson 



1. Sylvilagus floridanus floridanus 



2. Sylvilagus fl.oridanus mallurus 



3. Sylvilagus floridanus mearnsi 



4. Sylvilagus floridanus similis 



5. Sylvilagus floridanus alacer 



6. Sylvilagus floridanus chapmani 



7. Sylvilagus floridanus holzneri 



8. Sylvilagus cognatus 



9. Sylvilagus robustus 



southeastern Minnesota, and south through Iowa to Trego- 

 County, Kansas, northern Missouri and Illinois, with all of 

 Indiana and Ohio. Vertical range from about 500 feet in 

 western New York to about 2,000 feet altitude in mountains 

 of western Pennsylvania; zonal range mainly Upper Austral,, 

 extending into lower part of Transition zone." (Nelson) 

 Nebraska Cottontail. — Sylvilagus floridanus similis Nelson. 

 Smaller than mearnsi or mallurus. Total length, 16 inches; 

 tail vertebras, 2.1 inches; hind foot, 4 inches; ear from notch, 

 2 inches. Color of upperparts pale pinkish buffy washed 

 with grayish over shoulders and with black over rest of 

 back. Found on "Dry plains (mainly along wooded 

 streams) of extreme western Minnesota, eastern North and 

 South Dakota, all of Nebraska (except possibly the Missouri 



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