100 NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. [No. 16. 
any of the party was discovered on the east side of Gray Butte Septem- 
ber 25 by Vernon Bailey. It contained Epilobium spicatum, Holodiscus 
discolor, Monardella odoratissima, Hieracium horridum, Ceanothus velu- 
tinus, and two species of grass. The bulk of the material was Epilo- 
bium and Monardella, 
On the west slope of Goose Nest Mountain, just east of Little Shasta 
Valley, Walter K. Fisher found conies common in an area of slide rock 
which extends in a practically unbroken stretch from the top to the 
bottom of the mountain. I have not seen the specimens. 
Lepus nuttalli Bachman. Sagebrush Cottontail. 
Several seen and two secured by W. H. Osgood in the sagebrush in 
Shasta and Little Shasta valleys, near the north base of the mountain. 
Lepus klamathensis sp. nov. Klamath Rabbit. 
Type from Fort Klamath, Oregon. No. 92248, 9 ad., U.S. Nat. Mus., Biological Survey 
Coll. Collected Jan. 25, 1808, by B. L. Cunningham. Orig. No. 86. 
Characters.—Similar to L. columbiensis Rhoads, but color fulvous 
instead of yellowish, with a distinct white stripe on hind foot; skull 
characters distinctive. 
Color.—Summer pelage: Upperparts grizzled fulvous and black, the 
fulvous rather pale and dull, but not at all yellowish as in columbiensts ; 
head, face, and pectoral collar dull fulvous; chin, throat, and belly 
white; a white stripe, sometimes irregular, extending along full length 
of upper surface of hind foot, on inner side, and usually including toes. 
Winter pelage: Either snow white all over, or like summer pelage 
but with black hairs uch more plentiful. 
Cranial characters.—Skull similar to that of columbiensis but some- 
what smaller and narrower; interorbital breadth at anterior notch less; 
bull decidedly smaller (smallest of the «mericaunus-baird?-icashingtont 
group); outer face of jugal very deeply grooved anteriorly, and with 
upper ridge reaching anteriorly beyond end of groove. 
Measurements.—Type: Total length, 432; tail vertebrie, 28; hind foot, 
127. Average of 3 specimens from type locality: Total length, 410; 
tail vertebriv, 39; hind foot, 126. 
Remarks.—Lepus klamathensis is 1 member of the americanus-bairdi- 
washingtoni group. In color it is intermediate between the yellowish 
columbicusis and the dark fulvous arashingtoni. In cranial characters 
it agrees best with columbiensis, particularly in the great length of the 
postorbital processes, but in the small bulls and peculiar form of the 
jugal it differs from all known members of the group. 
This rabbit is common in the alder thickets in marshy places and 
along streams near Fort Klamath, Oregon, from which place the late 
Major Chas. EK. Bendire sent me several specimens in the winter of 
1883-84; and from which we have recently obtained additional spec- 
imens from B. L. Cunningham. 
