FIELD BOOK OF MAMMALS 



from notch, 2.2 inches. Pelage above, dark grayish brown, 

 Hghtly washed with reddish; no rump patch; sides grayer 

 than back ; ears dark grayish brown ; nape dark rusty rufous ; 

 tail above like back, below white but not as conspicuously 

 white as in the Cottontails ; underparts dull whitish ; throat 

 brownish buffy. Found in "California, from Monterey to 

 Santa Monica on west side of the Coast Range; and western 

 foothills of Sierra Nevada from Tulare County to Shasta 

 County. Vertical range along coast from sea level up to 

 over 3,000 feet altitude in adjacent mountains; zonal range 

 semihumid Upper Sonoran into semihumid Transition Zone 

 (mainly Upper Sonoran)." (Nelson) 



Redwood Brush Rabbit. — Sylvilagus bachmani uberi color 

 (Miller). 

 Larger than typical bachmani, but ears smaller, color darker 

 and redder. Total length, 14.5 inches; tail vertebrae, 1.5 

 inches; hind foot, 3.1 inches; ear from notch, 2 inches. 

 Upperparts rich reddish brown; nape dark rufous; under- 

 parts soiled whitish, sometimes washed with buffy; throat 

 dull buffy. Found in "Mainly humid coast belt from near 

 Monterey Bay, California, north to near Columbia River 

 (Beaverton), Oregon, and inland in northern California to 

 head of Sacramento Valley at Tehama and Stillwater. 

 Vertical range from sea level up to 1000 feet or more in 

 northern California; zonal distribution mainly Humid 

 Transition." (Nelson) 



California Brush Rabbit. — Sylvilagus bachmani cinerascens 

 (Allen). 

 Resembling typical bachmani, but grayer brown above and 

 grayer below, feet whiter, and ears larger. Total length, 

 12.5 inches; tail vertebrae, 1.6 inches; hind foot, 2.8 inches; 

 ear from notch, 2.3 inches. Upperparts varying from dark 

 grayish brown to dull buffy brown (grayer in spring and 

 summer) ; underparts white but with slate color of underfur 

 showing through. Found in "Arid brush-grown slopes of 

 southern and western sides of San Joaquin and neighboring 

 valleys in California, as far north as Jolon and Jamesburg 

 and thence south throughout southern California west of the 

 summit of the mountains (reaching the coast south of Santa 

 Monica) . . . Vertical range, from sea level up to 6,000 

 feet altitude in northern Lower California; zonal range, 

 through Upper Sonoran Zone up into Transition (mainly 

 Upper Sonoran)." (Nelson) 



Subgenus Tapeti 

 Palustris Group. — Swamp Rabbits 

 This group is characterized by a marsh or swamp habitat, 

 dark color, and short tail which lacks the conspicuously white 

 underside of the true Cottontails. 



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