LEPORID^ 193 



Type lucalit}-, near junction of Snake and C()luinl)ia Rivers. 

 Washington. 



From northeastern Cahfornia, eastern Oreg-on and eastern 

 \\'ashington east to the Rocky Mountains and the western part 

 of the Great Plains. The Xuttah Wood Hare inhabits the sage 

 brusJi reg"ion of northern Cahfornia in Lassen, Alodoc and Siski- 

 you Counties. It does not seem to be common in many places. 



Lepus bachmani W'atkrhouse. (For John Bachman.) 



BACH.MAN BRUSH HARE. 



Above grayish brown mixed with blackish, the back tinged 

 with Ijurnt umber; ears gray, darkest on outer surface, narrowly 

 edged with whitish, rarely edged, but not tipped witli black; 

 nape light burnt umber ; sides and throat brownisli gray mixed 

 with whitish; belly and front sides of legs pale gray, the plumbe- 

 ous bases of the hairs showing through more or less on the belly ; 

 soles smoky brown; tail \-ery small, its upper surface, sides and tip 

 grayish brown, lower surface white; skull similar in size to tliat 

 of nuttaUi; condylar process of lower jaw shorter and more up- 

 right, angular process wider; compared witli audiiboni the same 

 differences in these processes hold; the skull is smaller and the 

 rostrum shorter. 



Length about 330 mm. (13 inches) ; tail vertebrae 36 (1.40) ; 

 hind foot 75 (2.90) ; ear from crown 67 (2.65). 



Type locality, San Francisco or Monterey, California. 



The Bachman Brush Hare is found in the coast region of 

 California from Monterey north to Oregon. 



' Lepus cinerascens Allen. (Ashy.) 



ASHY BRUSH HARE. 



Similar to bacliiiumi; paler, the burnt umber tint of the upper 

 parts nearly or cjuite absent; body smaller; hind leet shorter; tail 

 and ears longer; teeth smaller; palatal bridge narrower; malar 



