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in eastern United States. 
Sylvilagus floridanus (ALLEN). (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1890, p. 160.) Type 
locality — Sebastian River, Brevard Co., Florida. Size small; total length, 
-about 16 or 17 inches; color grayish brown or rusty brown; legs and nape 
rufous brown. 
Sylvilagus f. mallurus (THomas). (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th ser., II, 1898, 
p. 320.) Type locality — Raleigh, North Carolina. Larger than floridanus 
and ears longer; color paler. 
Sylvilagus f. mearnsii (ALLEN). Type locality—Fort Snelling, Minnesota. De- 
scription as previously given. Total length, about 17.50 in.; tail vertebre, 
about 2.75 in.; hind foot, about 4 in. 
Sylvilagus f. alacer (BANGS). (Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., X, 1896, p. 136.) Type 
locality — Stilwell, Oklahoma. Smaller than mearnsii; size about the same 
as floridanus; upper parts more reddish brown than mearnsii; total length, about 
16.75 in.; tail vertebra, 2.25 to 2.50 in.; hind foot, 3.75 in. 
Sylvilagus f. hitchensi Mearns. (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXIX, 1911, p. 227.) 
' Type locality — Smiths Island, Northampton Co., Virginia. Size of mallurus 
but paler, with upper parts sandy fulvous and skull and teeth larger. 
