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Type locality. — Salento, at head of Rio Quindio west of Mount 

 Tolima, West Quindio Andes, Caldas, Colombia; altitude, 1,895 meters. 



Distribution. — Known only from type locality. 



Characters. — Essentially as in fulvescens but less uniformly colored, 

 sides of body paler. 



Remarks. — Allen found salentus "nearly related to S. gabbi of 

 Costa Rica." Overlooking his own Julvescens, nearest geographically, 

 Allen distinguished salentus from surdaster of western Ecuador by the 

 long soft pelage, pale ears, and wholly buffy tail. 



Specimen examined. — One. The type (A.M.N.H.), 



SYLVILAGUS BRASIUENSIS NICEFORI Thomas 



Sylvilagus nicefori Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 8, p. 442, 1921. 

 Lepus gabbi, Alston {nee Allen), Biologia Centrali- Americana, Mammalia, vol. 1, 

 p. 178, 1882 (part, Concordia, MedelUn, and possibly pi. 19). 



Holotype. — Adult male, skin and skull, B.M. No. 21.7.1.26; 

 collected December 1919 and received in exchange from Hermano 

 Niceforo Maria. 



Type locality. — San Pedro, Cordillera Central, 24 km. north of 

 Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia; altitude, 2,435 meters. 



Distribution. — In addition to the type, Thomas (op. cit.) recorded 

 a specimen from Concordia, a locality on the western slope of the Cauca 

 Valley, approximately 45 km. southwest of Medellin, altitude 2,030 

 meters. 



Characters. — Probably not distinguishable from salentus; compared 

 with apollinaris, underparts less white, the hairs tipped with buff, the 

 dark basal portions showing through. 



Remarks. — Tapitis of the Colombian CordUlera Central may 

 eventually prove to be the same, with salentus and nicefori synonyms of 

 S. b.Julvescens. A specimen from Concordia, Colombia, recorded and 

 figured by Alston as Lepus gabbi is doubtless the one collected by 

 Salmon and subsequently identified as Sylvilagus nicefori by Thomas. 

 In certain details Alston's colored figure fits neither the description of 

 nicefori nor of salentus. It is possible that the artist was obliged to 

 take some liberties in coloring areas not clearly visible to him in the 

 dried skin. The broad white circumorbital band and the sharply 

 defined white edging of the ears shown in the figure are characteristic 

 of Neotropical cottontails. Otherwise the figure is identifiable with 

 a tapiti. 



Specimen examined. — One. The type (B.M.). 



SYLVILAGUS BRASIUENSIS APOLLINARIS Thomas 



Sylvilagus apollinaris Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 5, p. 31, 1920. 



Holotype. — Adult, sex unknown, skin and skull, B.M. No. 19. 

 10.15.2; received in exchange from Frere Apollinaris Maria. 



