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remarkable beast was formerly abundant throughout this region [the 
Catskills]. During recent years it has become comparatively scarce 
except on the mountains. The skeleton of a porcupine was found under 
the fallen ruins of an observatory on the summit of Hunter mountain ; 
two other specimens were subsequently trapped there (altitude 4025 
feet); three were taken at a spring under a shelving rock, at the altitude 
of 3800 feet, and a seventh was overtaken and killed in the slide rock on 
the side of Hunter mountain at about 3000 feet altitude” (’98, p. 346). 
leweas eC S2 up ai7) records a specimen taken near Rochester, Genesee co. 
in 1881. : 
There is a porcupine in the New York state museum taken at 
McKownville, Albany co. 
Mr Savage writes as follows of the occurrence of the porcupine near 
Buffalo, ‘‘The porcupine is to be found in the wilder parts of the 
southern tier of counties. I have seen a fine big male from near Cherry 
creek, Chautauqua co. My friend Roger Fitch has shot it near Westfield 
in the same county. In the fallof 1894 one was brought into Gowanda, 
Erie co. by a squirrel hunter. JI also saw one in August or September, 
1896, that had been killed by boys at Blasdell six miles from Buffalo.” 
Lepus floridanus mallurus (Thomas) Sowtheastern cottontatt 
1837 Lepus sylvaticus Bachman, Acad. nat. sci. Philadelphia. Journ. 
7 pt. 2: 403 (part). Not Lepus borealis sylvaticus Nilsson. 
1832. : 
1842 Lepus nanus De Kay, Zoology of New York, Mammalia. p. 94 
(part). 
1895 Lepus sylvaticus Bangs, Boston soc. nat. hist. Proc. 26: 405. 
1896 Lepus sylvaticus Fisher, The Observer, May 1896. 7: 198. 
1898 Lepus sylvaticus Mearns, Am. mus. nat. hist. Bul. 9 Sep. 1898. 
HOR Beit 
1898 Lepus nuttalli mallurus Thomas, Ann. and Mag. nat. hist. 
Semn7) Oty USGS. 2.1320. 
1899 Lepus floridanus mallurus Allen, Am. mus. nat. hist. Bul. 4 Mar. 
1899. 12: 13. 
Type locality, Raleigh, North Carolina. 
Faunal position. Upper and lower austral zones. 
Habitat, “ Lepus sylvaticus \ives in the open fields and broom-grass 
stretches, in the rank growth of weeds along ‘creeks’, and in the open 
southern woods, seldom if ever living in the denser parts of woods or 
swamps’? (Bangs, ’95, p- 412). 
