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SYLVILAOTTR.
AVtV- Skin and skull. Adult. Mirador, Vera Cruz, Mexico. Collected
by Dr. C. Sartorius. Orij^inal mark "e.'' Skin catalogued
April, 18(53; skull, November 27, 181>0.
Skin in poor condition, laid out flat on side. A good deal of the epidermis
has slipped from the left. Skull formerly in the skin, and all the posterior parts
are more or les.s damaged by the preservative used on the skin. The posterior
parts of the brain-case and the posterior edges of the ascending rami of the
mandible, especially of the right half, are lacking.
Type designated by number ^y^i^^. A large series of skulls in the Museum
collection in the twenty-five thousands, was misnumbered and the skull of the
present sjjecimen, along with others, had to be renumbered, and is now 34878,
instead of 25953.
Lepus bachmani ubericolor Miller.
I'roc. Acad. Xat. Sci. Phila., 1899, p. 383, October 5, 1899.
=Sylvilagus bachmani ubericolor ( Miller). See Lyon, Smithsonian Miscall. Coll.,
XLV, No. 1456, p. 337, June 15, 1904.
iH4 1- Skin and skull. Adult male. Beaverton, Oregon. February
25, 1890. Collected by A. W. Anthony. Original number 1226.
Catalogued March 16, 1802.
Well-made skin in good condition; skull perfect, except for loss of right half
of mandible.
Sylvilagus auduboni vallicola Nelson. Biok)gical Survey collection.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XX, pp. 82-83, .July 22, 1907.
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Skin and skull. Adult female. San Emigdio lianch, Kern
County, California. October 22, 1891 . Collected by E. W. Nelson.
Original number 1353.
Well-made skin in good condition; skull perfect, except for absence of last two
right and left upper molars.
Sylvilagus auduboni warreni Nelson. Biological Survej^ collection.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XX, p. 83, July 22, 1907.
148632. Skin and skull. Adult female. Coventry, Colorado. Janu-
ary 4, 1907. Collected by C. H. vSmith. Original numl)er 6312x.
Well-made skin in good condition; skull perfect, except mandible, which consists
of three fragments, one including both incisors, another the left molar
series, and the third the condyle and angular process.
Lepus floridanus yucatanicus Miller.
Proc. Aciid. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1899, p. 384, Octobers, 1899.
=Sylvilagus floridanus yucatanicus (Miller). See Lyon, Smithsonian Miscell.
Coll., XLV. No. 1456, p. 337, June 15, 1904.
rKU- Skin and skull. Adult female. Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.
February 22, 1865. Collected by Dr. A. Schott. Original num-
ber 207. Comi.sion Cientifica do Yucatan, «lose Salazar Llarregui.
Skin catalogued in 1873; skull, June 13, 1899.