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Remarks.—Because of the aridity of the White Mountains I had 
expected to find the cony on this range relatively light colored, pos- 
sibly identical in this regard with the pale-colored race albatus of the 
Mount Whitney region. It turns out, however, that the White Moun- 
tains animal is darker even than muiri of the Yosemite region, closely 
resembling in color tone the race schisticeps of the northern Sierras 
from the Tahoe region northward. 
As elsewhere, the conies in the White Mountains live in rock slides 
and broken-up rock outerops. Two colors of rocks occur in this range, 
a blackish or dark red “‘shale,’’? and a white or grayish white granite. 
There are extensive belts purely of one or the other kind of rock. Our 
party took pains to shoot conies from each color of ground, keeping 
notebook record of where each specimen was shot. I am unable to detect 
any difference in color between animals shot from white granite and 
those from dark ‘‘shale.’’ 
The new subspecifie name, sheltoni, is selected in recognition of the 
efficient services as field collector rendered the Museum of Vertebrate 
Zoology by Mr. Alfred C. Shelton. It was chiefly through his tireless 
effort that the excellent series of White Mountains conies was obtained. 
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