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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). 

 Lucas ('82, p. 7) 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. f 



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 fall of 1894 one was brought into Gowanda, 

 Erie co. by a squirrel hunter. I also saw one in August or September, 

 1896, that had been killed by boys at Blasdell six miles from Buffalo." 



Lepus floridanus mallurus (Thomas) Southeastern cottontail 



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. Bui. 9 Sep. 1898. 



10: 331. 



1898 Leptis nuttalli mallurus Thomas, Ann. and Mag. nat. hist. 



ser. 7 Oct. 1898. 2:320. 



1899 Lepus floridanus mallurus Allen, Am. mus. nat. hist. Bui. 4 Mar. 



1899. 12: 13. 



Type locality. Raleigh, North Carolina. 



Faunal position. Upper and lower austral zones. 



Habitat. " Lepus sylvaticus lives 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). 



