﻿MAMMALS OF NORTHERN COLOMBIA — HERSHKOVITZ 361 



Ilolotype. — Adult male, skin and skull, B. M. No. 99.9.9.123; 

 collected April 18, 1899, by Perry O. Simons; original number, 272. 



Type locality. — Canar, southern Ecuador; altitude 2,600 meters. 



Distribution. — Paramo zones and interandean highland savannas of 

 Ecuador from southern Canar, through Azuay, northern Loja, and 

 eastern El Oro Provinces. 



Characters. — More warmly colored than andinus, auditory bulla 

 smaller. 



Remarks. — S. h. canarius is a weakly differentiated form probably 

 not worthy of subspecific distinction from andinus. The collector's 

 notation on the label of the type, "from hole in ground," induced 

 Thomas to opine that "these rabbits are evidently burrowers." Most 

 probably the tapiti discovered by Simons was occupying a hole 

 made by a burrowing owl or some other animal. 



Specimens examined. — Two. The type (B. M.) ; San IVf artin, Azuay, 

 2,600 meters, 1, an immature (C. N. H. M.). 



SYLVILAGUS BRASIUENSIS KELLOGGI Anthony 



Sylvilagus kelloggi Anthony, Amer. Mus. Nov. No. 55, p. 9, figs. 3C, E (skull), 



1923 (another specimen from El Paso, Azuay). 

 S[ylvilagus] kelloggi, Hershkovitz, Occ. Papers Univ. Michigan Mus. Zool., 



No. 393, pp. 4-5 1938 (Guachanamd; comparisons). 



Holotype. — Adult male, skin and skull, A.M.N.H. No. 60515; col- 

 lected October 8, 1920, by H. E. Anthony. 



Type locality. — Guachanamd, headwaters of Rio Chira, Cordillera 

 Occidental, Loja Province, Ecuador; altitude, 9,050 feet. 



Distribution. — Temperate Zone scrub forests of the Cordillera 

 Occidental, Ecuador, in the provinces of Loja and Azuay. 



Characters. — More warmly colored, with more ochraceous, than 

 Peruvian capsalis; with more ochraceous, less gray, on cheek and 

 crown, underparts whiter than in andinus. 



Measurements. — ^Those of a topotype: Total length, 377; tail, 28; 

 hind foot, 82; ear, dry from notch, 50; condylobasal length, 64.5; 

 zygomatic breadth, 34.7; greatest width of nasals at premaxillary 

 sutures, 13.8; least length of palatal bridge, 6.3; distance between 

 outer sides of maxillary plates of tooth rows, 22.4. 



Remarks. — This form was first described as the nominal representa- 

 tive of a "species group" intermediate in characters between paramo 

 and tropical lowland tapitis. Present material shows kelloggi to be the 

 subspecific link connecting the complex of tapitis from the highlands 

 and lowlands of Ecuador and Peru with, the common Brazilian species. 

 AVhile a topotype of kelloggi at hand is more or less separable from 

 representatives of its nearest geographic allies, andinus, chillae, and 

 capsalis, it camiot be distinguished from a series of topotypes of its 



