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Description. Considerably larger than the other two species ; 

 general colour speckled black and yellowish brown, but with no 

 trace of the rufous ; below, including the chin, white with a pale 

 yellowish tinge, chest like the back, no black mark on the cheek, a 

 white spot often present on the forehead ; ears very long from the 

 confluence of the margins about 5J in., from the extreme base about 

 617 in., nearly naked anteriorly ; the inner half of the posterior sur- 

 face thickly covered with short hair and along the margin of the tip 

 a fringe of black ; a rufous patch on the nape and occiput as in L. 

 crassicaudatus ; limbs much longer than those of the other species ; 

 claws concealed by the long hairs ; tail long like that of L. capensis, 

 white with a black streak above. 



Dimensions (from a stuffed specimen). Head and body 26'0 ; tail 

 about 4'0 ; hind foot 5'75 ; from ear to tip of nose 6'0 ; skull length 

 4'15, breadth 1*82 ; upper molars - 66. 



Distribution. This Hare appears to be confined to the higher hills 

 throughout South Africa as far north as Ovampoland and Ehodesia ; 

 it does not seem to be recorded from the countries beyond our limits, 

 though it is noted by Peters from the neighbourhood of Tette on the 

 Zambesi. 



CKASSICAUDATUS, THE EED HARE. 



Lepus crassicaudatus, Is. GEOFFROY, Mag. Zool., pi. xix. (1832) ; 

 WATERHOUSE, Nat. Hist. Mam., ii., p. 99 (1848) ; LAYARD, Cab. Mam. 

 S. Afr., p. 57 (1862). 



Lepus rupestris, A. SMITH, S. Afr. Quart. Journ., ii., p. 174 (1834). 



Lepus melanurus, BUEPPELL, Mus. Senckenbergianum, iii., p. 137 

 (1842). 



Description. General colour speckled black and yellowish brown 

 much as in L. capensis, but perhaps a little lighter, becoming rufous- 

 white below ; fur softer than in L. capensis ; chin white, separated 

 on either side from the grey of the cheeks by a black line running 

 back from the angle of the mouth to below the ear ; a whitish ring 

 round the eye ; ears moderate rounded at the extremities, about 

 4^ in. in length, nearly naked anteriorly, posteriorly a band along 

 the inner margin covered with very short speckly black and yellow 

 hairs ; a pure rufous patch on the occiput and nape of the neck, the 

 rufous extending up the base of the ears ; legs and feet short and 

 rufous-brown ; tail thick and bushy, pale brown above and below, 

 with no white or black as in the other species. 



