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and a less than half-grown young topotyjse are at present all the 
specimens of floriclanus I know of. The young one, No. W\\, 
coll. of American museum of natural history, is exactly like the 
adults in its color, and very much darker than the young of the 
same age from North Carolina with which I have compared it. 
Intermediates between these races can be found at just the 
points they would naturally be looked for. A cotton-tail, No. 
U^f, coll. Amer. mus. of nat. hist., from Enterprise, Fla., comes 
very near tjqjical floriclanus^ but is a little lighter, though darker 
than specimens from Citronelle, Fla. A series of seven specimens 
from Citronelle in the collection of E. A. and O. Bangs are in 
their turn slightly darker than sylvaticus from North Carolina. 
Some cotton-tails from Oak Lodge on the east peninsula, just 
opposite Micco, are light colored and belong to the Carolinian 
subspecies sylvaticus, which probably extends the length of the 
east peninsula without change. 
In Jan. 1894, Mr. Charles Merriam sent me three cotton-taili^ in 
the flesh, that he killed on the bank of the Mississippi, at 
Trenton, Tenn. These rabbits, No. 886, 887, and 888, coll. of 
E. A. and O. Bangs, are of especial interest as they are perfect 
intermediates between sylvaticus and tnearnsi both in size and 
color. The same winter I received in the flesh from Elkhart, 
Ind., two cotton-tails ; they are extreme examples of rnearnsi in 
color but are a Uttle smaller than the average from the type 
locality. 
A rabbit No. 2615, collection of the American museum of 
natural history, from Toronto, Canada, I refer to rnearnsi. Two 
cotton-tails just received in the flesh, from my friend, Gerrit S. 
Miller, Jr., killed at Peterboro, N. Y., are the same as the Toronto 
one. One, a ? ad., Dec. 16, 1894, Peterboro, N. Y., No. 2414, 
coll. of E. A. and O. Bangs, measures, total length 469, tail 79, 
hind foot 104.5, ear from notch 66, which is nearly up to the 
average of typical rnearnsi. 
I am inclined to believe that the cotton-tail was not native 
either at Toronto, Canada, or Peterboro, N. Y., but that as the 
country has been cleared and the forest turned into farming land, 
it has worked in from the southwest around the shores of Lake 
Erie ; not a very great distance from northern Indiana, 
whence I have true rnearnsi (the Elkhart sj^ecimen referred to 
