134 



RODENTS OF IOWA 



in the autumn of 1915. E. W. Nelson of the United States 

 Biological Survey gives the geographical distribution of this 'lorm 

 as follows : ' ' Great Plains from east central and northern Texas, 

 northeastern New ]\Iexico and north through western half of Indian 

 Territory, all of Oklahoma, extreme southwestern part of Missouri, 

 all of Kansas and Nebraska, except perhaps extreme eastern parts, 

 southwe'itern Dakota, southeastern AVyoming, and all of Colorado 

 east of Rocky ^Mountains/ '" See also the map on page 132. 



MEARNS' COTTONTAIL RABBIT. 

 GRAY RABBIT. 



COTTONTAIL. 



Sylvilagus floridamis vicar iisi (Allen). 



Lcpus sijlvaticus mearnsi Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y. 

 VI, 171, 1894 (footnote). 



Description. — Color above pale yellowish brown, with an over- 

 lying wash of blackish ; sides of head and body paler ; rump dull 

 gray, forming a rather distinct rump patch; nape tinged with 

 rufous brown or rusty brown; tail above dull bro^vnish tinged 



Fio. 33. — Young Cottontiul at about the time of leaving nest. Plioto from life 



by Prank C. Pellett. 



»»Nel80n, E. W., N. A. Fauna, No, 29, 146, 1909. 



