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men of the western variety of sy/vaticus, as strongly conjectured to be the 
case by Professor Baird, and for which belief he has given ample reasons. 
Up to the present time, no adult Hare of this small size has yet been found 
anywhere, notwithstanding the testimony of Townsend that it “‘was doubt- 
less an adult animal”. He says the hunters, who knew it well, assured him 
it never grew any larger, but it seems probable that these hunters may have 
had in mind the Little Chief Hare (Lagomys princeps). A Hare so abundant 
as this is represented to be is not likely to have escaped the observation of 
the numerous naturalists and collectors who have since passed over the same 
region. 
The Lepus bachmani was described by Waterhouse in 1838 from an 
immature specimen procured somewhere in the “southwestern portions of 
North America, supposed to be between California and Texas ”,* or “ perhaps 
California ”,t and redescribed from the same specimen in 1839 by Dr. Bach- 
man. In the Quadrupeds of North America, it is mentioned as ‘ described 
from a specimen sent by Douglass from the western shores of America”.{ It 
is here spoken of as abundant in Texas, its habitat being regarded as embrac- 
ing “a great portion of Texas, New Mexico, and California”, and as “ probably 
’ and northeast to ‘about 
extending south through great part of Mexico’ 
the headwaters of the Red River or Arkansas ”.{ Professor Baird believes 
that the real locality of Waterhouse’s and Bachman’s first specimen (the 
one sent by Douglass) was Texas, although he was at first, on the ground 
of locality, inclined to identify it with what he afterward described as Lepus 
auduboni. The two specimens referred by Professor Baird to L. ‘ bachmani” 
are from Brownsville, Texas, and are still in the collection of the Smithsonian 
Institution. 
The Lepus artemisia was described by Dr. Bachman in 1839 froma 
specimen brought from Fort Walla-Walla by Mr. Townsend, who speaks of 
it as common there. It seems to have been recognized only from this 
locality till 1853, when Dr. Woodhouse referred specimens to it from the 
Zuni and Colorado Rivers. In 1857, Professor Baird referred to it speci- 
mens from Oregon, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Texas; and the name has 
since been generally used for the designation of the small Gray Hare of the 
plains and Rocky Mountain region generally. 
* Bachman,.Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 97. 
t Waterhouse, Mam., ii, 124. 
t Aud. and Bach., Quad. N. Amer., iii, 37. 
