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te except for mid-dorsal line of black extending onto rump; sides of shoulders, flanks, sides of abdomen, rump, and outside of hind legs uniform iron gray. The average weight of 61 adult males from Arizona was 8.2 lbs. In that state 124 pregnant females had an average of 1.93 young (1-5) and Vorhies and Taylor (1933:580) thought that a female had three or four litters per year. LEPUS ALLENI ALLENI Mearns. 1890. _Lepus alleni_ Mearns, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 2:294, February 21, type from Rillito, on the Southern Pacific Railroad, Pima County, Arizona. _Marginal records._--Arizona: Queen Creek (Vorhies and Taylor, 1933:480); Cascabel (_ibid._); Calabasas (Nelson, 1909:118). Sonora (Burt, 1938): Cerro Blanco (p. 67); Oputo (p. 66); Batamotal (p. 66); La Libertad Ranch (p. 67); Picu Pass (p. 67). Arizona: 2 mi. W Quitovaquita (Huey, 1942:362); Casa Grande (Nelson, 1909:118). LEPUS ALLENI PALITANS Bangs. 1900. _Lepus_ (_Macrotolagus_) _alleni palitans_ Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 1:85, February 23, type from Aguacaliente, about 40 mi. SE Mazatlan, Sinaloa. _Marginal records._--Sonora: near San Bernardo on R['i]o Mayo on Sonora side of Sonora-Chihuahua boundary (Burt and Hooper, 1941:7): _Alamos_ (Nelson, 1909:119); Guirocoba (Burt, 1938:68). Nayarit: Acaponeta (Nelson, 1909:119). Sinaloa (Nelson, 1909:119): Esquinapa; _Rosario_; Culiac['a]n. Sonora: "near" Navajoa (Burt, 1938:68). LEPUS ALLENI TIBURONENSIS Townsend. 1912. _Lepus alleni tiburonensis_ Townsend, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 31:120, June 14, type from Tiburon Island, Gulf of California, Sonora. Known from Tiburon Island only. =Lepus europaeus= European Hare Total length, 640-700; tail, 70-100; hind foot, 130-150; ear from notch (dry), 79-100; weight, 3000 to 5000 grams. Upper parts tawny, mixed with blackish hairs on back; underparts white including underside of tail; upper side of tail and terminal patch at distal end of outside of ears black; upper side of feet tawny like sides (not white or whitish). This is an introduced species. LEPUS EUROPAEUS EUROPAEUS Pallas. 1778. _Lepus europaeus_ Pallas, Nov. Spec. Quadr. Glir. Ord., p. 30. Type locality, Burgundy, France. (Introduced and established in Ontario and parts of the northern United States; slowly spreading in southern Ontario north of Lake Erie (St. Thom
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