1916] Kellogg: Mammals and Birds of Northern California 377 



the hind leg on the inner side and including the toes. The skull 

 shows the deeply grooved jugal, and small auditory bullae con- 

 sidered distinctive of the species. The post-orbital processes are 

 noticeably long. In total length this specimen measures less than 

 the average given of three specimens from Fort Klamath ; but the 

 hind foot is even longer and this may be considered a more de- 

 pendable index to actual size. 



Measurements of this specimen are: total length, 367 millimeters; 

 tail vertebrae, 26; hind foot, 130; height of ear, 87. Average of 

 3 specimens from Fort Klamath as given by Nelson (1909, p. 108) : 

 total length, 414, tail vertebrae, 39 ; hind foot, 126 ; ear from 

 notch, 64. 



We had been told by Mr. Hinz at Summerville that snowshoe 

 rabbits were frequently seen in that region in the winter and that 

 they were quite abundant on the south fork of the Salmon River. 

 We had seen no sign of them at our camp there, and had decided 

 that only the merest chance would furnish any specimens during 

 the summer season. Our camp at Bear Creek was on the edge of 

 a mountain meadow, and within two hundred yards of our tent 

 was some higher dry ground covered with small brush through 

 which ran innumerable cattle paths. Miss Alexander was making 

 the rounds of her small traps one day about noon, when she scared 

 up a rabbit in this brush. It ran around a bush and then sat per- 

 fectly still in the middle of the trail. The creature was so motion- 

 less and so nearly the same color as the dried grass of the trail 

 that he could not be seen again until he moved and then he was 

 gone in a flash. 



I set a number of small steel traps in the trails under the 

 bushes and baited them with dried apples. The next morning the 

 rabbit was in one of them. The young one was caught in a rat- 

 trap set for squirrels among the trees bordering the meadow. The 

 rest of this family were probably living in the neighborhood, but 

 further trapping failed to secure any more specimens. 



Lepus californicus californicus Gray 

 California Jack Rabbit 



Scott River was the only camp at which we saw jack rabbits, 

 and even here they were not especially abundant. They affected the 



