LEPUS, 423 
436. arizone (Lepus), Allen, Mon. N. Am. Rod., 1877, p. 332. 
Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., rgo1, p. 285. 
ARIZONA Hare. 
Type locality. Beale’s Springs, fifty miles west of Fort Whipple, 
Yavapai County, Arizona. 
Geogr. Distr. Lower California and State of Sonora, Mexico, 
north to Deserts of Arizona, and the Chiricahua and Huachuca 
Mountains, (but not to the White Mountains,) up to 8,500 feet. 
Genl. Char. Smaller than L. nuttalli, but similar; ears much 
longer and broader. 
Color. Above pale yellowish gray, mixed sparingly with black; 
nape yellowish fulvous; sides pale gray, mixed sometimes with pale 
brown; chin white; pectoral band yellowish; rest of under parts 
white; feet pale yellowish brown; tail above darker than back, yellow 
brown, beneath white; ears pale grayish brown, outer edge whitish. 
Winter specimens are heavily lined with black above and on sides. 
Measurements. Total length, 340-383; tail vertebra, 35-54; 
hind foot, 76-94; ear, 69-78. Skull: total length, 65; greatest width, 
35; interorbital constriction, 17; length of nasals, 28; upper molar 
series, 12; length of lower jaw, 46. 
a.—major (Lepus), Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1896, p. 557. 
Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., rgor, p. 286. 
GREATER DeEserT HARE. 
Type locality. Calabasas, Pima County, Arizona. 
Geogr. Distr. Poso de Luis, State of Sonora, to the basin of the 
Mimbres, State of Chihuahua, Mexico, and northward to Colorado 
Plateau of Arizona. 
Genl. Char. ‘Similar to L. arizone, but larger, more reddish and 
darker.’ 
Color. Above grayish drab, tinged with cinnamon, lined with 
black; sides paler; rump iron gray; nape and outer surface of limbs 
dull cinnamon; ears pale grayish on inner side, drab mixed with gray 
and black on outer side, tips black; pectoral band clay color; rest of 
under parts white. 
Measurements. Total length to end of hairs of tail, 430; tail ver- 
tebre, 42; hind foot, 92; ear from notch, 69 (skin.) 
b.—minor (Lepus), Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Musi, 1896, p. 557. 
Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1gor, p. 286. 
LESSER DeserRT HARE. 
Type locality. El Paso, El Paso County, Texas. 
Geogr. Distr. State of Chihuahua, Mexico. ‘‘ Plains of Colorado, 
southward tothe Rio Grande, and westward to the elevated central 
