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MONOGRAPHS OF NOKT11 AMERICAN KODENTIA. 



Tabus XLV. — Measurements of Lupus GRAYbONi. 



LEPUS BRASILIENSIS Linn. 



Brazilian Hare; Tapeti. 



Lepus brasiliensis Brisson, Eeg. Auim., 1756, 141.— Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, 1766, 78.— Erxleben 

 Syst. Eeg. Auim., 1777, 336.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 164— Schreber, Sauget, iv, 1792, 

 902.— Shaw, Gen. Zoiil., ii, 1801, 208.— Azara, Paraguay, ii, 1801, 57.— Desmarkst, Mam- 

 malogie, 1822, 351.— Maximilian, Beitrage z. Naturg. Bras., ii, 1826, 450.— Fischer, Synop. 

 Mam., 1829, 375— Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, i, 1844, 198- Wagner, Schreber's Siiuget., 

 Suppl., iv, 1844, 116.— Waterhouse, Nat. Hist. Mam., ii, 1848, 141.— Giebel, Siiuget., 1855, 

 450.— Frantzius, Wiegm. Arch., 1869, i, 276 (Costa Rica).— Hensel, Abband. d. phys. 

 Klasse d. kiinigl. Akad. d. Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1872, 62 (Southern Brazil).— Allen, 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xvii, 1875, 435. 



Lepus tapeti Pallas, Nov. Sp. Glires, 1778, 30.— Zimmermann, Geograph. Gesch., ii, 1780, 334. 



Tapeti brasiliensis Gray, Auu. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser., xx, 1867, 224. 



" Tapeti brasiliensibiis, MarcGRAve, Brazil, 223." 



About the size of Lepus sylvaticus, or a little smaller ; ears rather longer 

 than in that species, and the tail shorter. Fur rather short and harsh; feet 

 rather sparsely clothed, above yellowish-brown, varied with black, not very 

 different in coloration from Lepus palustris; sides of the nose, orbital ring, 

 throat, and abdomen white ; legs and nape-patch bright rufous, the latter 

 whitish on the inner side. Tail brown above, rufous yellow below. 



Of this species I have very few specimens, and am hence unable to give 

 much original information respecting it. Its reputed range extends through- 

 out the greater part of South America, from Paraguay northward to Central 

 America. With such a wide range, it would be surprising if it preserved 

 everywhere uniform characters. 



Waterhouse refers to two specimens from Bolivia, one of which, "an 

 extremely young specimen," differs from the other in being blacker, and in 

 having the rufous of the limbs, nape-patch, etc., of a brighter tint; in other 

 words, having the colors much more intense. A half grown and rather 

 faded specimen in the present collection from "Vermeto", Paraguay (the only 

 one I have from South America), is not very appreciably different in color 

 from ordinary specimens of L. palustris, though rather paler. The ears, 

 however, are longer, and the tail shorter, the latter rufous-yellow below 

 instead of white. A specimen from Chiriqui and two others from Costa 



