434 LEPUS, 
Fie. LVIII. LeEPUS ALLENI. ALLEN’S JACK RABBIT. 
ALLEN’S JACK RABBIT. 
Type locality. Rillito Station, Southern Pacific Railroad, Pima 
County, Arizona. 
Geogr. Distr. Desert region between Phcenix and _ Benson, 
Arizona. Mexico? 
Genl. Char. Size large; ears large; fulvous gular patch. 
Color. Above yellowish brown, mixed with black; nape fulvous; 
sides, hips, rump, and outer side of legs white, mixed with black, giving 
a gray effect; pectoral band fulvous, rest of under parts white; head 
pale yellowish gray; feet white above; tail above gray, with a line of 
plumbeous black extending onto the rump, beneath white; ears 
whitish, with fringe white. 
Measurements. Total length, 643; tail vertebre, 69; hind foot, 
138; ear from notch, 156. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 108; Hensel, 
86; zygomatic width, 48; median nasal length, 34; lateral length of 
nasals, 45; posterior width of nasals, 36; anterior width of nasals, 
16; palatal length to tip of azygos termination, 11; length of upper 
tooth row, 19; length of frontals, 47; of parietals, 16; length of lower 
jaw from tips of incisors to angle, 84; height at condyle, 43. 
a.—palitans (Lepus), Bangs, Proc. New Eng. Zod6l. Club, 1, 1900, p. 85. 
WANDERING JACK RABBIT. 
Type locality. Agua Caliente, forty miles southeast of Mazatlan, 
State of Sinaloa, Mexico. 
Geogr. Distr. State of Sinaloa, Mexico; range unknown. 
Genl. Char. Similar to L. allent, but smaller and darker; ear 
shorter; rostrum broader and shorter. 
