Wyoming Cottontail 
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Montana, Wyoming, western North and South Dakota, Nebraska, 
Kansas as far east as Trego County, Colorado, and northeastern 
Utah, having a vertical range from 3,000 to 7,000 feet, being 
mainly in the arid Upper Sonoran zone, but also reaching lower 
Transition. In Colorado it is found over the plains region east of the 
foothills, and up the Arkansas River at least as far as Salida, and 
in the lower portions of Routt and Rio Blanco Counties. In the 
northeastern part of the state its range is mingled, to some extent 
at least, with that of the Nebraska Cottontail, and the two species 
are found in the same localities at times. In the foothills, and also 
in Routt and Rio Blanco Counties, it meets the range of the Rocky 
Mountain and Black Hills Cottontails, and in some localities two 
species have been taken together. It has been taken in Larimer, 
Jefferson, Elbert, Denver, Arapahoe, El Paso, Morgan, Kit Carson, 
Fremont, Baca, Chaffee, Routt, and Rio Blanco Counties. 
Habits. — The Wyoming Cottontail is fonder of the open 
FIG. 17. wYOMixNG COTTONTAIL, Sylvilagus a. baileyi 
In form under sage-brush. Photographed near Douglas, Wyom- 
ing, by E. R: Warren. The rabbit's face can be seen 
near the lower part of the picture, a little to 
the right of the centre 
country than of the thick brushy places, though it may be 
found there also, but is really an inhabitant of the plains by 
