Lepus townsendii Bachman, 1839 . J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 8(1):90.

TYPE LOCALITY: " ...on the Walla-walla...river"; restricted by Nelson (1909:78) to Fort Walla Walla, [near present town of Wallula, Walla Walla Co., Washington].

DISTRIBUTION: C Alberta and Saskatchewan east to extreme SW Ontario (Canada), south to SW Wisconsin, Iowa, NW Missouri, west through C Kansas to NC New Mexico, west to C Nevada, EC California (USA) and north to SC British Columbia (Canada).

STATUS: Has withdrawn from parts of its southeastern (Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, S Nebraska) distribution, perhaps because of habitat alteration. Stable in remainder of range (Flux and Angermann, 1990).

SYNONYMS: campanius Hollister, 1915; campestris Bachman, 1837; sierrae Merriam, 1904.

COMMENTS: Placed (as campestris) in subgenus Proeulagus by Gureev (1964:190). Reviewed by Lim (1987, Mammalian Species, 288).