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upper Yacjui lliver, at Magdalena, ITerniosillo, and Ortiz, and probably 

 ranges over the greater part of the State. Little is known as to the 

 western limits of its range, or the injury which it may do to crops when 

 the country becomes more tliickly settled. Concerning its habits Mr. 

 W. W. Price says: 



" This splendid hare is abundant about Tucson and in lower portions 

 of the desert belt. It is found both on the gravelly hills bordering the 

 Eillito at Fort Lowell, and on the immense niesquite and Larrea plains 

 of Tucson. It is somewhat shy, and hard to secure, except with a rifle. 

 One rarely comes upon it suddenly. I have never seen it start up with 

 the quick, rapid flight of L. texianus. It has a slow, apparently awk- 

 ward gait, but its leaps are long, and it gets over the ground with 

 surprising rapidity. In color and habits it is so very different from any 

 other American hare, the wonder is that it should have so long remained 

 uudescribed." ^ 



' Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., VII, 1895, pp. 201-202. 



