374 BULLETIN 79, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Sylvilagus palustris paludicola — Continued. 

 Range. — Peninsular Florida and adjacent coast islands, north 

 along the east coast at least to San Mateo, and on the west side 

 for an unknown distance northwest of the type locality, but 

 probably some distance beyond the Suwanee River. Vertical 

 range from sea level up to about 100 feet altitude; zonal range, 

 extreme lower austral and upper border of humid tropical zone. 



*Sylvilagus aquaticus aquaticus (Bachman). 



1837. Lepus aquaticus Bachman, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, vol. 7, p. 319. 



1885. Lepus aquaticus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (1884), 

 p. 601. 1885. (Part.) 



1895. Lepus aquaticus attwateri Allen, Bidl. Amer. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 7, p. 327. November 8, 1895. (Medina River, 18 

 miles south of San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.) 



1899. Lepus telmalemonus Elliott, Field Columb. Mus., publ. 

 38, zool. ser., vol. 1, p. 285. May 24, 1899. (Washita River, 

 near Dougherty, Murray County, Oklahoma. ) 



1909. Sylvilagus aquaticus Nelson, North Amer. Fauna, No. 

 29, p. 270. August 31, 1909. 



Type Locality. — Western Alabama. 



Range. — River bottoms and swampy woods from Lumpkin, 

 southwestern Georgia, west to Medina River near San Antonio, 

 middle Texas, and north at least to Hartshorne, Oklahoma, 

 and to wooded bottoms of Ohio and Mississippi rivers in 

 southern Illinois; but separated from Gulf coast by a narrow 

 belt occupied by littoralis. Vertical range from a little above 

 sea level to about 800 feet in Alabama, entirely in the lower 

 austral zone. 



t*Sylvilagus aquaticus littoralis Nelson. 



1909. Sylvilagus aquaticus littoralis Nelson, North Amer. Fauna, 

 No. 29, p. 273. August 31, 1909. 



Type Locality. — Houma, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. 



Range. — ^A narrow belt of swamps and marshes along the Gulf 

 coast, nearly if not entirely within upper limits of tidewater, 

 from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, west through Louisiana to 

 Matagorda Bay, Texas. Vertical range below 50 feet altitude, 

 wholly within the lower austral zone. 



