436 LEPUS. 
black; broad fulvous band on lower part of throat and breast; rest 
of under parts and inside of legs white; outer side of legs pale yel- 
lowish brown; tail above black, beneath whitish; ears outside yel- 
lowish brown, finely grizzled with black and fringed with white on 
edges; inside grayish, grizzled brown inside the white edge. 
Measurements. Total length, 565; tail vertebre, 74; hind foot, 
123; ear from crown, 128. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 94; Hensel, 
76; zygomatic width, 42; lateral nasal length, 37; median nasal 
length, 29; posterior nasal width, 20; anterior nasal width, 14; length 
of lower jaw to end of incisors, 72; height at condyle, 4o. 
texensis Sriseus, Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., rgot, p. 291. 
texianus (sic) griseus (Lepus), Mearns, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 
1896, p. 562. 
Gray DESERT JACK RABBIT. 
Type locality. Fort Hancock, El Paso County, Texas. 
Geogr. Distr. States of Coahuila and Chihuahua, Mexico, north 
to upper Rio Grande from Maverick and Kinney Counties, Texas, to 
Grant County, New Mexico. 
Genl. Char. Size about equal to that of L. californicus; ear larger. 
Color. Winter Pelage. Above brownish gray, lined with black; 
rump and thighs gray; sides gray, lined sparsely with black and 
tinged with yellowish brown; nape grayish white; top of head brownish 
gray mixed with black; sides of head and neck tinged with yellowish 
brown; gular patch grayish clay color; rest of under parts white; 
legs gray, tinged with clay color; tail above black, this color extending 
over and dividing the gray on the rump, beneath brownish; ears 
brownish gray on outside anteriorly, with brownish white fringes, 
posteriorly white, tipped with black and fringed with white. 
Measurements. Total length, 559.2; tail vertebra, 91.5; hind 
foot, 127; ear from crown, 152.8. 
texvensis micropus. 
t ianus (sic) micropus (Lepus), Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 
1903, p. 605. 
SMALL-FOOTED HARE. 
Type locality. Rio del Bocas, State of Durango, Mexico. Alti- 
tude, 6,800 feet. 
Genl. Char. ‘‘Similar to L. t. eremicus and L. t. griseus, but more 
brownish gray than the latter, and large-bodied, with shorter tail, 
smaller hind feet, and larger ears than either, and with less fulvous 
along the sides of the body; prepectoral area paler and more grayish.” 
Measurements. ‘‘Type, total length, 535; head and body, 450; 
tail vertebre, 76; hind foot, 114; ear from notch, 133; from crown, 
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