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LEPUS. 27
Order GLIRES
Family LEPORID.^l
Genus LEPUS.
Lepus merriami altamirae Nelson. Biolog-ical Survey collection.
Proc. Biol. 8oc. Wash., XVII, pp. 109-110, May 18, 1904.
93691. Skin and skull. Adult male. Alta Mira, Tamaiilipas, Mexico.
May 16, 1898. Collected by E. W. Nelson and E. A. Goldman.
Original number 12365.
Well-made skin in good condition; skull perfect, except for absence of second
right upper molar, broken postorbital processes, and two perforations of the
brain case.
Lepus asellus Miller.
True. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1899, p. 380, October 5, 1899.
ffltl- Skin and skull. Adult female. San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
October 22, 1891. Collected by P. L. Jouy. Orit^inal number
270. Catalogued May 22, 1893.
Well-made skin in good condition; skull perfect, except for some pieces broken
out of ascending ramus of left half of mandible.
Lepus bairdi Hayden. Cotype.
.\mer. Nat., Ill, p. 115, May, 1869.
=Lepus americanus bairdi (Hayden). See True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VII,
p. (501, 1885.
No type designated. The description is based upon specimens
collected in the Columbia Valley, Wind Riv^er Mountains, near
Fremonts Peak, long. 110°, lat. 43°, Fremont County, Wyoming,
in the first part of June, 1860, by Dr. F. V. Hayden.
The specimens, excluding three marked young in the catalogue,
are as follows:
/AVf- Male. f[une 2, 1860. Original number 62. Made over into
fairly good study skin, March, 19