LEPORIDiE 193 



Type locality, near junction of Snake and Columbia Rivers, 

 Washington. 



From northeastern California, eastern Oreg-on and eastern 

 Washington east to the Rocky Mountains and the western part 

 of the Great Plains. The Nuttall Wood Hare inhabits the sage 

 brush region of northern California in Lassen, Modoc and Siski- 

 you Counties. It does not seem to be common in many places. 



Lepus bachmani V\^atrrhouse. (For John Bachman.) 



BACHMAN BRUSH HARE. 



Above grayish brown mixed with blackish, the back tinged 

 with burnt umber; ears gray, darkest on outer surface, narrowly 

 edged with whitish, rarely edged, but not tipped with black; 

 nape light burnt umber; sides and throat brownisJi gray mixed 

 with whitish; belly and front sides oi legs pale gray, the plumbe- 

 ous bases of the hairs showing through more or less on the belly; 

 soles smoky brown; tail very small, its upper surface, sides and tip 

 grayish brown, lower surface white; skull similar in size to that 

 of nuttalli; condylar process oi lower jaw shorter and more up- 

 right, angular process wider ; co^mpared with auduboiii the same 

 differences in these processes hold; the skuU is smaller and the 

 rostrum shorter. 



Length about 330 mm. (13 inches) ; tail vertebras 36 ( 1.40) ; 

 hind foot 75 (2.90) ; ear from crown 67 (2.65). 



Type locality, San Francisco> or Monterey, California. 



The Bachman Brush Hare is found in the coast region of 

 California from Monterey north to Oregon. 



Lepus cinerascens AivI.e;n. (Ashy.) 



ASHY BRUSH HARE. 



Similar to bachmani; paler, the burnt umber tint of the upper 

 parts nearly or quite absent ; body smaller ; hind leet shorter ; tail 

 and ears longer; teeth smaller; palatal bridge narrower; malar 



