﻿MAMMALS OF NORTHERN COLOMBIA — HERSHKOVITZ 369 



1 (C.N.H.M.); Rio Therezopolis, 1 (C.N.H.M.); Sao Paulo, 1 

 (C.N.H.M.). 



SYLVILAGUS BRASIUENSIS PARAGUENSIS Thomas 



Taptti AzARA, Apuntamientos para la hlstoria natural de los quadrupedos del 



Paraguay y Rfo de La Plata, p. 32, 1802 (description and life history). 

 Lepus Brasiliensis, Rengger, Naturgeschichte der Saeugethiere von Paraguay, 



p. 247, 1830 (description and life history). 

 Lepus brasiliensis, Pelzeln, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 33, p. 80, 1883 



(part; Cai^ara). — Allen, Monographs of North American Rodentia, Lepori- 



dae, p. 348, 1877 (Bermejo, Paraguay). — Cope, Amer. Nat., vol. 23, p. 39, 



1889 (Chapada, Matto Grosso). — Miranda Ribeiro, Comm. Linhas Telegr. 



Estrateg. Matto-Grosso ao Amazonas, Rio de Janeiro, Annexo, 5, Hist. Nat. 



Zool., p. 44, 1914 (Matto Grosso). 

 [1]Lepus brasiliensis, Goeldi and Hagmann, Bol. Mus. Goeldi (Paraense), vol. 



4, p. 76, 1906 (Itaituba, upper Rio Tapaj6z). 

 Lepus Braziliensis [sic], Waterhouse, A natural history of the Mammalia, vol. 2, 



Rodentia, pp. 141-143, 1848 (part; Paraguay; Bolivia, description of specimen 



collected by Bridges). 

 Sylvilagus paraguensis Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 8, p. 539, 1901. — 



Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 35, p. 567, 1916 (Trinidad and 



Rfo Negro, Paraguay). — Krieg, Zeitschr. fiir Morphol. Okol. Tiere, vol. 15, 



pt. 4, pp. 757, 784, 1929 (Paraguayan Chaco). 

 [Sylvilagus brasiliensis] paraguensis, Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 



11, p. 210, 1913. 

 Sylvilagus (Tapeti) brasiliensis paraguensis, Krumbiegel, Zool. Anz., vol. 107, 



p. 27, 1942 (part; Bolivia: San Jose, Chiquitos; Buena Vista, Santa Cruz. 



Paraguay: Lapango, Pilcomayo; La Crescencia, Chaco). 

 Sylvilagus brasiliensis paraguensis, Marini, Agronomfa y Veterinaria (Rev. 



centro estudiantes, Univ. Buenos Aires), vol. 23, p. 336, 1930 (Apostoles, 



Misiones; descriptions, distribution, etc., from literature). 

 Sylvilagus minensis, Vieira, Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz, vol. 35, No. 3, p. 567^ 



1941 (Salobra, near Miranda, Matto Grosso). 

 Sylvilagus minensis chapadae, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1903, vol. 2, 



p. 241, 1904 (type locality, Santa Ana de Chapada, Matto Grosso, Brazil). 

 Sylvilagus minensis. Nelson {nee Thomas), North American Fauna No. 29, p. 45, 



pi. 12, figs. 1, 4, 1909 (Chapada). 

 [Sylvilagus brasiliensis] chapadensis [sic], Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat Hist., ser. 8, 



vol. 11, p. 210, 1913. 

 Tapeti brasiliensis Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol. 20, p. 224, 1867 (part; 



Bolivia). 



Holotype. — Adult female, skin and skull, B.M.; collected May 30, 

 1901, by William Foster; original number, 383. 



Type locality. — Sapucay, east of Asunci6n, Paraguay; altitude, 220 

 meters. 



Distribution. — Paraguay, the Chaco and adjacent highlands of 

 Brazil (Matto Grosso), Bolivia (Santa Cruz), and Argentina (Corri- 

 entes and Misiones). 



Characters. — Paler than minensis and tapetillus. 



Measurements. — Means and extremes of six adult topotypes: Total 

 length, 353 (338-365); hmd foot, s. u., 73 (71-76); ear, in flesh, 55 



