DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. 



PLATE i . Photographs from life of rabbits described in the text. 



FIG. i. 6^248, son of the rabbits shown in figs. 2 and 3; ears of intermediate length, hair 

 short, color black. 



2. "Old female lop," sooty yellow in color. 



3- d^45> a short-eared, Himalayan albino, angora rabbit. 



4. 9 4j daughter of J 1 248, fig. i, and of his sister 9 247, a rabbit of like character. 



PLATE 2. Photographs from life of rabbits described in the text. 

 FIG. 5. 9 269, a short-eared albino rabbit. 



6. A litter of four rabbits (640 to 643) borne by 9 269, fig. 5, when mated with (^179, 



fig. 8. Three are gray, one is black; all have ears of intermediate length, 

 as compared with the parents. 



7. Gray quarter-blood lops borne by 9 43i> plate 3, fig. 9, in a mating with her son 



(J 1 176, a half-blood lop similar in appearance to his sister 9 175, plate 3, fig. 10. 



8. c?i79, a full-blood yellow lop, son of the "old female lop," plate i, fig. 2, and of the 



"old male lop," a yellow rabbit. 



PLATE 3. Photographs from life (except fig. 9) of rabbits described in the text. 

 FIG. 9. Mounted skin of 9 43i> the "Belgian hare," a gray rabbit with short ears. 



10. 9 i7S, a gray half-blood lop, daughter of 9 43*, n g- 9, and the old J 1 lop, a yellow 

 rabbit similar in appearance to his son (^179, plate 2, fig. 8. 



n. 9322, a gray three-quarter blood lop, daughter of old female lop, plate i, fig. 2, 

 and the half-blood lop c?i76; compare fig. 10, which gives a good idea of 

 the appearance of 0^176. 



12. (5*381, son of 9 175, fig- i, and her brother, (^176; an F 2 half-blood lop, with the 

 same general ear-character as his parents, but yellow in color, like his grand- 

 father. 



PLATE 4. Dorsal and ventral views of the skulls of 3 rabbits. 



In the middle the skull of (^248 (compare plate i, fig. i); at the right the skull of his mother 

 "old female lop" (plate i, fig. 2); and at the left the skull of his father 

 (plate i, fig. 3). 



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