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*Lepus californicus texianus ( Waterhouse) . 



1848. Lepus texianus Waterhouse, Nat. Hist. Mamm., vol. 2, 

 p. 136. 

 fl896. Lepus texianus griseus Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 18, p. 562. June 24, 1896. (Fort Hancock, El Paso 

 County, Texas.) 



1903. Lepus texianus micropus Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 19, p. 605. November 12, 1903. (Eio del Bocas, 

 northwest Durango, Mexico.) 



1909. Lepus californicus texianus Nelson, North Amer. Fauna, 

 No. 29, p. 142. August 31, 1909. 



Type Locality. — ^Unknown, but probably in western Texas. 



Range. — Northern Durango, Mexico, north through Chihuahua, 

 arid western Texas (except northern Panhandle), New Mexico, 

 (except northeastern part), northeastern Arizona (valley of 

 Little Colorado River), and southwestern part of Colorado. 

 Vertical range from about 1,500 feet above Del Rio, Texas, 

 to 7,500 feet altitude on mountains of New Mexico ; zonal range 

 mainly upper Sonoran, but extending down into lower Sonoran 

 and up in summer into lower border of Transition zone. 



*Lepus californicus melanotis (Mearns). 



1885. Lepus caUotis texianus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7, 

 (1884), p. 601. 1885. (Part.) 



1890. Lepus melanotis Mearns, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 2, p. 297. February 21, 1890. 



1909. Lepus californicus melanotis Nelson, North Amer. Fauna, 

 No. 29, p. 146. August 31, 1909. 



Type Locality. Independence, Montgomery County, Kansas. 



Range. — Great Plains from east-central and northern Texas, 

 northeastern New Mexico, and north through western half of 

 Indian Territory, all of Oklahoma, extreme southwestern part 

 of Missouri, all of Kansas and Nebraska, except perhaps 

 extreme eastern parts, southwestern Dakota, southeastern 

 Wyoming, and all of Colorado east of Rocky ^Mountains. Ver- 

 tical range from less than 1 ,000 feet near Independence, Kan- 

 sas, to over 6,000 feet on east base of mountains in Colorado; 

 zonal range mainly upper Sonoran. 



t*Lepus californicus merriami (Mearns). 



1896. Lepus merriami Mearns, Preliminary diagnoses of new 



mammals from the Mexican border of the United States, p. 2. 



March 25, 1896. (Reprint: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 18, 



p. 443. May 23, 1896.) 

 1909. Lepus californicus mernami Nelson, North Amer. Fauna, 



No. 29, p. 148. August 31, 1909. 

 Type Locality. — Fort Clark, Kinney County, Texas, 



