HARES. 



Lepus timidtis. van arcticus. — Allen. Habitat, Arctic Ainer« 

 ica, southward on the Atlantic coast to Labrador and New- 

 foundland ; in the interior to Fort Churchill, the northern shores 

 of Great Slave Lake and the valley of the upper Yukon. 



Lepus campestris.— Bachman. Habitat, Plains of the Sas- 

 katchewan southward to middle Kansas, and from Fort Reily 

 westward to the Coast Range. 



Lepus americanus. — ^Endeben : with several varieties. Habitat 

 of var. aTTiericanus, from the Arctic Barren Grounds, southward 

 to Nova Scotia, Lake Superior and Northern Canada, and in the 

 interior throughout the wooded parts of the Hudson's Bay Terri- 

 tories, and Alaska ; of var. •uirginianus. Nova Scotia to Connecticut 

 on the coast, the Canadas, and northern parts of the northern tier 

 of States westward to Minnesota, and southward in the Allegha- 

 nies to Virginia.; of var. Washingtonii, west of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains from the mouth of the Columbia northward into British 

 Columbia ; of var. Bairdii, the higher parts of the Rocky Mountains 

 southward to New Mexico. 



Lepus sylvaticus. — Bachman, with vars. Nultalli a.TiA Audttboni. 

 Habitat, United States at large except Northern New England 

 and the more elevated parts of the Appalachian Highlands. 



Lepus Trowbridgei. — Baird. Habitat. West of the Sierra 

 Nevadas from northern California to Cape St. Lucas. 



Lepus callotis. — Wagler. Habitat, United States between the 

 ninety-seventh meridian and the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and 

 from North Kansas and the Great Salt Lake Basin southward into 

 Mexico. 



Lepms californiais. — Gray. Habitat, California west of the 

 Sierra Nevada range, south to Cape St. Lucas, Lower California. 



Lepms palustris. — Bachman. Habitat, South Atlantic and 

 Gulf States. 



