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ull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 62:35, January 28. _Marginal records_ (Nelson, 1909:242).--Guerrero: El Lim['o]n. Oaxaca: Llano Grande, thence westward along Pacific Coast. =Sylvilagus graysoni= (J. A. Allen) Tres Marias Cottontail 1877. _Lepus graysoni_ J. A. Allen, Monogr. N. Amer. Rodentia, p. 347, August, type from Tres Marias Islands, Jalisco; probably Mar['i]a Madre Island. (See Nelson, N. Amer. Fauna, 14:16, April 29, 1899.) 1904. _Sylvilagus_ (_Sylvilagus_) _graysoni_, Lyon, Smiths. Misc. Coll., 45:336, June 15. _Marginal records_ (Nelson, 1909:245): Mar['i]a Madre Island; Mar['i]a Magdalena Island. Total length, 480; tail, 51; hind foot, 99; ear from notch (dry), 57. This insular species is closely related to _Sylvilagus cunicularius_ of the adjacent mainland but has notably shorter ears and more reddish on the upper parts, sides and legs; the skull is slenderer, especially in the rostral region. The posterior extensions of the supraorbital process are united to the braincase throughout most of their length as in _Sylvilagus palustris_. The species seems to have a narrow vertical range, occurring from sea level up to only 200 feet. Genus LEPUS Linnaeus--Hares and Jack Rabbits Revised by Nelson, N. Amer. Fauna, 29:59-158, August 31, 1909. Concerning Shamel's (Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 55:25, May 12, 1942) proposed changes of names for several species, see Hall, Univ. Kansas Publ., Mus. Nat. Hist., 5:45, October 1, 1951. 1758. _Lepus_ Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. 10, 1:57. Type _Lepus timidus_ Linnaeus. 1895. _Macrotolagus_ Mearns, Science, n. s., 1:698, June 21. Type, _Lepus alleni_ Mearns. (See Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 18:552, June 24, 1896.) 1904. _Poecilolagus_ Lyon, Smiths. Misc. Coll., 45:395, June 15. Type, _Lepus americanus_ Erxleben. 1904. _Lagos_ Palmer. N. Amer. Fauna, 23:361, January 23. Type, _Lepus arcticus_ Ross. _Lagos_ J. Brooks, a catalogue of the anatomical and zoological museum, pt. 1, p. 54, July, 1828, appears to be a _nomen nudum_. 1911. _Boreolepus_ Barrett-Hamilton, History of the British Mammalia, pt. 9, p. 160, November 17. Type, _Lepus groenlandicus_ Rhoads. (For status see Sutton and Hamilton, Mem. Carnegie Mus., 12 (pt. 2, sec. 1):78, August 4, 1932; also A. H. Howell, Jour. Mamm., 17:331, November 1
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