122 MAMMALS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY. 



Faunal distribution. Transition and deforested Canadian zones ; southern 

 New England to and including watershed of Allegheny and Susquehanna 

 Rivers, south along the Alleghenies to (and beyond) Maryland, intergrading 

 northward and westward into subspecies mearnsi, and southward into ma/' 

 lurus, the races next considered. 



Distribution in Pa. and N.J. Cotemporary with the transition zone in 

 these states (see map). Not found in northwestern Pa., where it is replaced 

 by the prairie race, L.f. mearnsi, next considered. 



Records, habits, description of species, etc. See beyond under L. f. mal- 

 lurus or Southeastern Cottontail. 



Eastern Prairie Cottontail or Rabbit. Lepus floridanus mearnsi 

 (Allen). 



1894. Lepus sylvaticus mearnsi Allen, Bulletin American Museum Natural 

 History, vol. 6, p. 171. 



1899. Lepus floridanus mearnsi Allen, Ibid., vol. 12, p. 13. 



Type locality. Fort Snelling, Hennepin Co., Minnesota. 



Faunal distribution. " The eastern prairie cottontail is a member of the 

 eastern prairie fauna of the transition and upper austral zones. It would, 

 therefore, not .come within the scope of the present paper had it not recently 

 extended its range as far as Toronto, Ontario and central New York." See 

 Miller, Key to Land Mammals of Northeastern North America, 1900, p. 119. 

 Examination of specimens from northwestern Pa. show this to be the form of 

 cottontail now living in the transition and deforested Canadian zones in that 

 region. It intergrades on the west slope of the Alleghenies with transition- 

 alis, and probably in the southeastern (Ohio valley) lowlands of Pa. with 

 mallurus. 



Records, habits, description of species, etc. See under next race, L.f. mal- 

 lurus. 



Southeastern, or Lowland Cottontail or Rabbit. Lepus floridanus 

 mallurus (Thomas). 



1898. L.\epus\ n.\uttaUi'} mallurus Thomas, Annals and Magazine Natural 

 History, yth series, vol. 2, p. 320. 



1899. Lepus floridanus mallurus Allen, Bulletin American Museum Natural 

 History, vol. 12, p. 13. 



Type locality. Raleigh, Wake Co., N. Carolina. 



Faunal distribution. Austral zones ; Atlantic Ocean, to and including 

 Mississippi Valley ; southeastern N. York t Georgia. 



Distribution in Pa. and N.J. This is the abundant and well known rabbit 

 of the lowlands of our State. Above elevations of approximately rooo ft. it 



