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MONOGRAPHS OF NORTH AMERICAN RODENTIA. 



Tabu; LIV. — List of specimens of Lepos caiifobnicus. 



LEPUS PALUSTRIS Bachraan. 



Marsh Hare. 



Lepus paluclris Bachman, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, 1837, 194, 336, pis. xv, xvi; viii, 1839, 79.— 

 Audubon, Birds of America, iv, 510, pi. ccclxxii. — Wateriiouse, Nat. Hist. Mam., ii, 1846, 

 119.— Aud. & Bach., Quad. N. Am., i, 1849, 151, pi. xviii.— Baikd, Mam. N. Am., 1857, 615, 

 pi. lix, fig. 2 (skull).-CouES, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xiii, 1869, 86.— Allen, Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 184; Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xvii, 1875, 435. 



Hydrolagus palmtris Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser., xx, 1867, 221. 



Lepus dovfjiassi var. 2, Guav, Cbarlesworth's Mag. Nat. Hist., i, 1837, 586. 



About the size of, or slightly larger than, the eastern form of L. sylvati- 

 cus, and of somewhat similar general proportions, but with much shorter 

 tail, and broader, heavier incisors and molars, and much larger and stouter 

 lower jaw; ears broader and more rounded; feet very sparsely furred, the 



