236 BULLETIN NO. VII. 



the head waters of the Des Moines river, which is the most 

 eastern authenticated point of capture of which we have been 

 informed. 



In Dakota it must still be abundant as large numbers some- 

 times find their way into city markets. 



Lepus sylvaticus BACHMAN. 



COMMON RABBIT. 



Fig. 17 (8). 



VAR. SYLVATICUS. 



Lepus nanus SCHREBER, Saugethiere, iv, 1792 (part.) 



DEKAY, Zool. of New York, 1842, p 93. 



WAGNER, Suppl. Schreber's Saug., iv, 1843. 

 Sylvilagus nanus GRAY, Ann. and Mag. Nat. H. 3d. series, xx, 1867, 221. 



ALLEN, Bull. Mus. Comp Zool., i, 1869. 

 Lepus americanus DESMAREST, Mammalogie, ii, 1822. 



HARLAN, Fauna Amer., 1825. 



AUDUBON, Birds of Amer. pi. 51. 



FISCHER, Synop. Mam., 1829, 376 (in part.) 



BACHMAN, Jour. Acad. N. S. Phila., vii, 1837. 



EMMONS, Quad. Mass, 1840, 56. 



THOMPSON, Nat. Hist. Vermont, 1842, 48. 



Lepus sylvaticus BACHMAN, Journ. Acad. N. S. Phila., vii, 1837, 345, pi. 

 xxii; viii, 1839, 79. 



WATERHOUSE, Nat. Hist. Mam., ii, 1848. 



AUDUBON and BACHMAN, Quad. N. A., i, 1849, 173, pi. 

 xxii. 



WOODHOUSE, Sitgreave's Col. and Zuni R. Exp., 1853, 55. 



MAXIMILIAN, Wiegmann's Arch., 1861, i, 144. 



BAIRD, Mam. N. A., 1857, 597, pi. viii; U. S. and Mex. 

 Bound. Surv., ii, 1859. 



HAYDEN, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., xii, 1863, 148. 



ABBOTT, Cook's Geol. N. Jersey, 1868, 759. 



ALLEN, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xiii, 1869, 194; Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 184. 



ALLEN, Monographs, N. A. Rodentia, ii, U. S. Geol. 



Surv. Terr., vol. xi, 327. 

 Sylvilagus bachmani GRAY, Ann. and Mag. N. H. 3d series, xx, 1867, 222- 



VAR. NUTTALLI. 



Lepus nuttalli BACHMAN, Journ. Acad. N. S. Phila., vii, 1837, 345, pi. 



xxii; viii, 1839, 79; Townsend's Narrative, 1839, 329. 

 AUD. and BACH., Quad. N. A., ii, 1851, 300. 

 BAIRD, Mam. N. A., 1857, 606; U. S. and Mex. Bound. 



Surv., ii, 1859, ii, 48. 



Lepus sylvaticus var. nuttalli ALLEN, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1875, 

 334; Monog. N. A. Rod., ii, p 328. 



