This species was found in the coastal sage belt from Cajon Wash west to
San Gabriel Canyon and was most plentiful in thin stands of sagebrush,
and in and around citrus groves. Because of their preference for
semi-open country, jack rabbits are absent from much of the coastal belt
of sagebrush where the brush is fairly continuous, and they never were
observed in the chaparral association.
Coyotes catch many jack rabbits and regularly forage around the foothill
borders of the citrus groves for cottontails and jack rabbits.
A female examined on February 19, 1951, was pregnant, and one taken on
March 15, 1951, carried three small embryos.
_Specimens examined._--San Bernardino County: 2 mi. NW Upland,
1600 ft., 3 (PC).
=Lepus californicus deserticola= Mearns