320 On various American Mammals. 



Lepus Nuttalli, Bachm. 

 {t. c. p. 345), 



and the various subspecies will be L. Nuttalli transitionalis, 

 Mearnsi, arizoncB, Holzneri^ &c. 



But out of the evil of tlie change of name one slight com- 

 pensating good may be made to result ; for in giving a fresh 

 name, as will be necessary, to what has hitherto been con- 

 sidered the typical subspecies of L. st/Ivaticus, a type locality 

 may be settled, which will be a relief to naturalists so geo- 

 graphically accurate as are modern American mammalogists. 



As a suitable name for the Carolinian subspecies of the com- 

 mon " Cotton-tail," I would suggest the Greek equivalent of 

 that name, L. n. mallurus^, and would take as type a specimen 

 from Raleigh, North Carolina, presented by Mr. Outrara 

 Bangs to the' British Museum (?, B.M. no. 97. 2. 1. 30, 

 formerly Bangs Collection, no. 735), which quite agrees with 

 the description given in his excellent paper on the group f. 

 Its measurements are : — Total length 440 millim. ; tail 60 ; 

 hind foot, with claws, 85 ; ear 60. Collected and measured 

 by Messrs. H. H. & C. S. Brimley. 



Lepus Bachmanij Waterh. 

 (P. Z. S. 1838, p. 103.) 



This name has been treated by various American writers as 

 a synonym of " i^. sylvaticus^^ [L, Nuttalli), at first with 

 doubt, but later with greater and greater apparent confidence. 

 Quite recently it has been even revived as the term for a 

 Texan subspecies of that animal, merely on the basis of a 

 guess by Baird that the type might have come from that 

 country. 



The animal was said by Waterhouse, although with doubt, 

 to have come from California, and on an examination of 

 the type now in the British Museum J, I find that it is cer- 

 tainly a Californian hare, though not L. Nuttalli; for, 

 without any room for doubt, it proves to be the species 

 commonly known as L. Trowbridgei, Baird. As Waterhouse's 

 name has priority by many years over that given by Baird, the 

 species will have to be known as L. Bachmani, L. Troivhridgei 

 falling into its synonymy. 



* Strictly speaking, " wool-tail."' 

 t P. Bost. Soc. N. H. xxvi. p. 404 (1894). 



X B.M. no. 53. 8. 29. 36 ; received from the Zoological Society's 

 Museum ; collected by D. Douglas. 



