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pale yellowish, with a well defined, rather conspicuous median longitudinal 

 blackish stripe ; sides pale buffy gray ; below white, with a broad pale yellow- 

 ish brown pectoral band ; inner sides of hind limbs whitish ; of fore limbs 

 whitish on proximal half ; outer surface of fore limbs strong yellowish brown, 

 of hind feet yellowish brown apically, yellowish brown mixed with white prox- 

 imally, with the edge of thighs fulvous ; head yellowish brown, brighter than 

 the general dorsal surface ; ears externally like the head for the basal half, 

 passing into black apically, with a narrow fringe of white on outer border. 



Length (approximate from skin), 350 ; tail vertebrae, 45 ; hind foot, 115 ; 

 ear from crown, 55. Skull, total length, 75 ; zygomatic breadth, 35 ; mastoid 

 breadth, 29 ; interorbital breadth, 18 ; width of postorbital constriction, 13 ; 

 length of nasals, 28. 



Type, No. VuW $ ad., Mill Lake, Turtle 'Mountains, North Dakota, July 

 12, 1895. Collected and presented by Dr. L. B. Bishop, after whom the species 

 is named. 



Unfortunately L. bishopi is represented by only a single speci- 

 men, which differs so much from any form of the L. americanus 

 group as to need no comparison with any of them, though most 

 resembling L. a. phczonotus. In general features it more strongly 

 recalls the L. bairdi group, but is darker even than the Colorado- 

 phase of L. bairdi, the only form of the group of which I have 

 summer specimens. It is especially characterized by its remark- 

 ably small, narrow ears, which are smaller than in L. mearnsi of 

 the Cotton-tail group. 



Lepus floridanus chapmani, nom. nov. 



Lepus sylvaticus bachmani ALLEN, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. VI, 1894, 170 ; 

 ibid. VIII, 1896, 56. Not Lepus bachmani Waterhouse, 1838 = L. trow- 

 bridgd Baird, 1855. 



In 1894 (/. c.) I adopted, following Baird, the name Lepus bach- 

 mani Waterhouse for the Texas Cotton-tail, considering that the 

 type locality was probably Texas rather than California, as doubt- 

 fully given in the original description (P. Z. S., 1838, p. 104). 

 Mr. Oldfield Thomas has recently (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 (7), II, Oct., 1898, p. 320) announced that " on an examination 

 of the type [of L. bachmani] now in the British Museum, I find 

 that it is certainly a California hare . . . for, without any 

 room for doubt, it proves to be the species commonly known as 

 L. trowbridgei, Baird." A reexamination of Waterhouse's de- 

 scription shows, rather through omission of prominent features 



