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the head waters of the Des Moines river, which is the most 
eastern authenticated point of capture of which we have been 
informed. 
In Dakota it must still be abundant as large numbers some- 
times find their way into city markets. i 
Lepus sylvaticus BACHMAN. 
COMMON RABBIT. 
Fig. 17 (8). 
VAR. SYLVATICUS. 
Lepus nanus SCHREBER, Siiugethiere, iv, 1792 (part.) 
DEKAY, Zool. of New York, 1842, p 93. 
W4GNER, Suppl. Schreber’s Siiug., iv, 1843. 
Sylvilagus nanus GRAY, Ann. and Mag. Nat. H. 3d. series, xx, 1867, 221. 
ALLEN, Bull. Mus. Comp Zool., i, 1869. 
Lepus americanus DESMAREST, Mammalogie, ii, 1822. 
HARLAN, Fauna Amer., 1825. 
AUDUBON, Birds of Amer. pl. 51. 
FISCHER, Synop. Mam., 1829, 376 (in part.) 
BACHMAN, Jour. Acad. N.S. Phila., vii, 1837. 
Emmons, Quad. Mass, 1840, 56. 
THOMPSON, Nat. Hist. Vermont, 1842, 48. 
Lepus sylvaticus BACHMAN, Journ. Acad. N. §. Phila., vii, 1837, 345, pl. 
xxii; viii, 1839, 79. 
WATERHOUSE, Nat. Hist. Mam., ii, 1848. 
AUDUBON and BACHMAN, Quad. N. A., i, 1849, 173, pl. 
xxii. 
WOODHOUSE, Sitgreave’s Col. and Zuni R. Exp., 1853, 55. 
MAXIMILIAN, Wiegmann’s Arch., 1861, i, 144. 
BAIRD, Mam. N. A., 1857, 597, pl. viii; U. S. and Mex. 
Bound. Surv., ii, 1859. 
HAYDEN, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., xii, 1863, 148. 
ABBOTT, Cook’s Geol. N. Jersey, 1868, 759. 
ALLEN, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xiii, 1869, 194; Bull. Mus. 
Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 184. 
ALLEN, Monographs, N. A. Rodentia, ii, U. 8S. Geol. 
Surv. Terr., vol. xi, 327. 
Sylvilagus bachmanit GRAY, Ann. and Mag. N. H. 3d series, xx, 1867, 222. 
VAR. NUTTALLI. 
Lepus nuttalli BACHMAN, Journ. Acad. N. S. Phila., vii, 1837, 345, pl. 
xxii; viii, 1839, 79; Townsend’s Narrative, 1839, 329. 
AUD. and BAcH., Quad. N. A., ii, 1851, 300. 
BAIRD, Mam. N. A., 1857, 606; U. S. and Mex. Bound. 
Surv., ii, 1859, ii, 48. 
Lepus sylvaticus var. nuttalli ALLEN, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1875, 
334; Monog. N. A. Rod., ii, p 328. 
