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Lepus californicus bennettii Gray 



"L[epus] Californicus" (part), Cooper, Zoology, in Cro- 

 nise. The Natural Wealth of California, 1868, p. 446 ("most 

 numerous west of the Sierra Nevada"). 



"Lepus californicus Gray" (part), Cooper, Proc. Cal. 

 Acad. Sci., 4, 1870, p. 63 (Believed to be peculiar to Cali- 

 fornia). 



"Lepus Californicus" (part), Cooper, Amer. Nat., 3, 1869, 

 p. 183 (Southern part of California) ; Amer. Nat., 3^ 1869, 

 p. 470 (Only large species westward of Fort Mojave). 



"Lepus Californicus," Cooper, Amer. Nat., 8, 1874, p. 15 

 (Seen in the foothills of the Cuyamaca Mts.). 



Specimens examined. — Two: Nos. 5621, 5622, Univ. 

 Calif. Mus. Vert. Zool. No. 5621: obverse of label '719 

 Lepus californicus 5 San Diego Cal. Dec 20th '61 J. G. C." ; 

 reverse, ten measurements, and a notation "Iris brown". No. 

 5622 : obverse of label "810 Lepus californicus. Gray. — Cali- 

 fornia Hare. — [printed slips pasted on] San Diego Cal Apr 

 25th '62 J. G. C." 



Specimens prepared with skulls inside skins, fore feet 

 folded backward, hind feet forward beneath body. 



No. 5622 is in very dark pelage, being darker, in fact, than 

 any specimens in the series of Lepus californicus bennettii in 

 the collection at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. 



