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specimen is peculiar; the fur is very long and silky, and of a light 
yellowish color. It would be strange to find an island form of an 
animal so aquatic in its habits, and I am inclined to consider the St. 
Catherine’s specimen abnormal, until I see more material. Mr. 
Brown also collected a series at each place where he stopped along 
the Georgia coast, and I took specimens at St. Mary % s and at Gaines¬ 
ville and Anastasia Island, those from the last two places being not 
typical. 
Lepus (Limnolagus) palustris paludicola (Miller and Bangs). 
Lepus paludicola Miller and Bangs, Proc. Biol. soc. Wash., 
1894, p. 105. 
Lepus palustris paludicola Chapman, Bull. Amer. mus. nat. hist., 
1894, vol. 6, p. 340. 
Type locality. Fort Island, near Crystal River, Citrus County, 
Florida. 
The Florida marsh rabbit is abundant all over southern Florida, 
living in marshes, swamps, and the heavier hummocks. On the 
savannahs of the Indian River I have seen it in greater numbers 
than elsewhere. 
L. paludicola is easily distinguished from L. palustris typicus by 
its smaller size, shorter ear, and strong cranial differences. The 
two intergrade in northern Florida. Melanistic individuals are not 
rare. I took one at Micco that is pure blue-black all over. I have 
specimens from Citrus County, Oak Lodge, Micco, and Flamingo, 
Florida. 
Lepus (Sylvilagus) sylvaticus sylvaticus Bachman. 
Lepus sylvaticus Bachman, Jour. Acad. nat. sci. Phila., 1837, 
p. 403. 
Type locality. North America. Restricted by the splitting off of 
subspecies to the Austral Zone of eastern North America. 
The cotton tail is very common in all suitable country south to 
about the middle of the Florida peninsula, where it gradually shades 
into the smaller dark form of southern Florida. True sylvaticus 
extends south down the east peninsula without change beyond the 
range of floridanus on the main peninsula; thus at Oak Lodge on 
the east peninsula true sylvaticus is abundant, and lives around the 
