LEPORIDH—LEPUS SYLVATICUS. oom 
his L. americanus is not found in such places, but inhabits thick woods. He 
says particularly that ‘‘on the barren grounds to the eastward of the Copper- 
mine, and on the extensive plains or prairies through which the Missouri and 
Saskatchewan flow, it is replaced by other and larger species”—respectively 
his L. glacialis and L. virginianus. Furthermore, his description of the 
summer pelage of his L. americanus corresponds perfectly with the specimens 
in the Smithsonian Institution from the Red River district northward to the 
Yukon. Several points in his description of L. virginianus, aside from its 
size, as the color of the under fur of the back, are wholly inapplicable to the 
LL. americanus, but strictly accord with the characters of the Townsend’s 
Hares. * 
The differences, as already noticed, between the northern and southern 
forms of L. americanus are quite appreciable, and, in giving them varietal 
designations, it becomes necessary to restrict the name americanus to the 
northern form, the earlier descriptions of americanus being based solely on 
specimens from Hudson’s Bay, while Harlan’s name of virginianus is alone 
applicable to the southern form, his description being based on Virginian 
specimens. As already noticed, the Nova Scotia and Red River specimens 
belong to the northern type, the southern form being mainly if not wholly 
restricted to the northern parts of the United States east of the Missouri 
River. 
Lepus washingtoni was first described by Professor Baird in 1855, and 
Lepus bairdi by Dr. Hayden in 1869, and neither of them have been con- 
founded with either of the other varieties of Lepus americanus or with any 
other species. 
LEPUS SYLVATICUS Bachman. 
Var. SYLVATICUS. 
Wood Hare; “Gray Rabbit’; “ Wood Rabbit.” 
Lepus nanus SCHREBER, Siiuget., iv, 1792, 881 (in part only).—DrKay, New York Zodl., i, 1842, 93, pl. xxvii, 
fig. 1.—WAGNER, Sappl. Schreber’s Siiuget., iv, 1843, 114. 
Sylvilagus nanus Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser., xx, 1867, 221—ALLEN, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoil., i, 
1869, 239. 
Lepus americanus DESMAREST, Mammalogie, ii, 1822, 351.—HArRLAN, Faun. Amer., 1825, 193.—AUDUBON, 
Birds of Amer., pl. 51.—Fiscner, Synop. Mam., 1829, 376 (in part only)—BacuMan, Journ. 
Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., vii, 1837, 326, pl. xvi, figs. 3, 4 (ear and foot)—Emmons, Quad. Mass., 
1840, 56.—THompson, Nat. Hist. Vermont, 1842, 48. 
*Since the above was written, Professor Baird has conceded the inapplicability of the name L. 
campestris to the smaller short-eared Varying Hare of British North America. 
