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Article II. DESCRIPTIONS OF FIVE NEW AMERICAN 

 RODENTS. 



By ]. A. ALLEN. 

 Lepus americanus phaeonotus, subsp. nov. 



Summer Pelage. General color above pale yellowish gray varied strongly 

 with black ; top of head more strongly suffused with fulvous ; an indistinct 

 blackish median dorsal line ; ventral surface white, with a yellowish brown 

 pectoral band. 



Winter Pelage. Similar to that of L. americanus, except that the zone 

 of fulvous underfur is paler and less extended, and the white tipping of the 

 hairs is much longer. 



Length, 488 ; tail vertebrae, 56 ; ear from crown, 88 ; hind foot, 139. (This 

 is the largest specimen of the series, and the only one having the collector's 

 measurements.) 



Type, fff, $ ad., Hallock, Kittson Co., Minn., Nov. 19, 1891. Collected 

 and presented by Dr. Edgar A. Mearns. 



Z. americanus phczonotus differs from Z. americanus, from North- 

 ern New Brunswick, in being somewhat smaller, and in the gray- 

 ish general effect of the summer pelage, in contrast with the 

 strong yellowish brown of Z. americanus. In general it shows a 

 decided deviation, in both size and coloration, towards the 

 Lepus bairdi group. 



This Hare is represented by 4 specimens (in changing pelage) 

 from Kittson Co., Minnesota, collected Nov. 19-22, 1891, by 

 Dr. E. A. Mearns ; by a young specimen from Mora, Kennebec 

 Co., Minnesota, collected June 15, 1889, by Dr. Mearns ; and by 

 4 in winter pelage from Moore's Lake, Todd Co., Minnesota, 

 collected in December, 1874, and January, 1875, by J. H. Batty. 

 The Todd County specimens, from near the southern boundary 

 of the range of this form, have the underfur less pale and the 

 overlying white less developed than in the Kittson County 

 examples. 



Lepus bishopi, sp. nov. 



Size small ; ears very small ; hind foot, 115, as against 130 in L. a. pfuzonotus 

 and L. americanus. 



Summer Pelage (somewhat worn). Above grayish brown tinged faintly with 



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