_Specimens examined._--Total, 3: ad. [Male], 69263, skull only,
dead on road, 1-3/4 mi. N Park Headquarters, 7275 feet, August 9,
1956; ad. [Female], 69261, no embryos, dead on road, 3/4 mi. S
and 1-3/4 mi. W Park Point, 8000 ft, August 8, 1956; ad. [Male],
69262, shot in brushy area on the burn on Wetherill Mesa 2 mi. NNW
Rock Springs, 7900 ft., August 24, 1956.
Nuttall's cottontail in Colorado is in general the cottontail of the
highlands, and the three localities just mentioned are on the top of the
Mesa Verde.