foothills, as at Arvada and Littleton, and occupying the country in com- 

 mon with the Wyoming Cottontail, but with this essential difference in 

 habits that the Nebraska prefers to live in the brush along the streams, 



Younj? Cottontails in nest in alfalfa field. Photograph from 

 Colorado Agricultural College, through W. L. Burnett. 



while the Wyoming lives on the more open prairie, about the sage and 

 rabbit brush. In other respects the habits of all these animals are similar. 

 They occupy almost all kinds of habitats, they live both in burrows and 

 in forms, and the young are born naked and blind in nests lined with fur 

 from the mothers' breasts. Tn some parts of the mountains the Rocky 

 Mountain Cottontail goes nearly to timberline. Ledges of rock with plenty 

 of cracks and holes are favorite dwelling places for all the species. On 

 the plains cottontails are often found about the prairie dog towns, living 

 in abandoned holes. 



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