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too young for positive identification. Reports of rabbits were obtained 
at Llagueda, at Cajamarca, and at Hacienda Limon, but the animals 
themselves were very difficult to secure. We found no signs of them 
except in cultivated alfalfa fields, and there repeated efforts to trap or 
to shoot them were unsuccessful. 
Sylvilagus defilippii (Cornalia). 
One adult and six young from Moyobamba are in the collection. 
These agree rather closely with the description of S. b. inca* except that 
the ears are only slightly blackish distally and the proximal half of the 
upper side of the hind feet is rather extensively whitish. The same 
characters were noted by Cabrera} in specimens from the type region 
of S. defilippit and it is therefore probable that our specimens are nearer 
to that species than to S. b. inca from southeastern Peru. 
Rabbits were by no means common at Moyobamba and in the course | 
of several weeks collecting only two were seen. In both cases, this was 
in bushy thickets near the banks of the river. 
Tremarctos ornatus (F. Cuvier). SpEcTACLED BEAR. 
An adult female was obtained in the mountains about 1o miles 
northwest of Menocucho. A male accompanying it was wounded but 
- made its escape.}T 
In this region the spectacled bear inhabits extremely arid mountains 
which support only a scanty vegetation consisting principally of cactuses 
and small thorny bushes. These mountains are from 1,000 ft. to 5,000 
ft. above sea level and although some of the higher slopes and small 
canyons support scattered trees and occasional thickets of mixed 
vegetation, the general character of the region is excessively arid and 
-not greatly different from the desert plain stretching westward to the 
sea. A fairly common shrub, a species of Capirras called chapote by the 
natives, produces a pear-shaped fruit having a hard outer shell enclosing 
numerous seeds which evidently form the principal food of the bears. 
The region is for long periods almost waterless and animal life is very 
limited. Signs of small mammals, except an occasional fox track, were 
*Thomas, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), XI, p. 210, February, 1913. 
{Trab. del Mus. de Cienc. Nat., Madrid, ser. Zool. No. 9, p. 9, April, 1913. 
TTA popular illustrated account of the hunt on which these bears were encountered 
was published in Outdoor World and Recreation, N. Y., XLVIII, pp. 367-370, 
June, 1913. 
