have a good outlook for possible enemies. Two or more litters are born 

 in a season, from three to five or six in a litter. 



Though belonging to the same 

 genus as the Jack Rabbits, the Snow- 

 shoe Rabbit (lj. bairdi) has a very 

 different habitat, living in the woods 

 or about brushy places in the moun- 

 tains, but never in the open. It 

 changes its coat according to the sea- 

 son, becoming white in winter. The 

 White-tailed Jacks in the snowier 

 parts of their range do the same, but 

 do not become so completely white as 

 the Snowshoes. This change takes 

 place in October, and the return to 

 the brown summer coat begins in 

 April. The comparatively enormous 

 hindfeet, with wide-spreading toes, make excellent snowshoes, holding'! up 

 the animal in the snow. The hindfoot is as long as that of the much larger 

 Jack Rabbit, and makes a larger track in the snow. 



COTTONTAILS. 



Colorado is blessed with five species and subspecies of Cottontails, as 

 follows: the Nebraska Cottontail, Sylvilagiis floridanus similis; the Rocky 

 Mountain Cottontail, S. mittalli pinetis; the Black Hills Cottontail, S. n. 

 !>iaii?>ei-i; the Wyoming or Bailey's Cottontail, S. auduboni baileyi; and 

 the Colorado Cottontail. S. a. warroni. These various forms occupy sepa- 

 rate, though sometimes overlapping ranges. The Nebraska Cottontail is 

 confined to the northeastern part of the state, ranging back toward the 



White-tailed Jack Rabbit, 

 : ;:. i-amiu-Mtri.s. . 



No. 20. Rocky Mountain Cottontail, S.vlvilnKiiM n. pinetiN. 



