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MONOGEArilS OF NOETH AMERICAN EODENTIA. 



Table LVII. — List of specimens of Lepus palustris. 



[ Specimens from the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 



LEPUS AQUATICUS Bachman. 

 Water Hare. 



Lepus aquations Bactiman, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci.Phila., vii, 1837,319, rd.xxii, fig. 2; viii, 1839, 78. — Water- 

 house, Nat. Hist. Mam., ii, 1848, 112.— Aud. & Bach., Quad. N. Am., i, 1849, 287, pi. xxxvii.— 

 Baird, Mam. N. Am., 1857, 612, pi. lix, fig. 1 (skull). — Allen, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xvii, 

 1875, 435. — Lincecum, Am. Nat. vi, 1872, 771 (distribution and habits). 



Bydrolai/us aquatious Gray, Aun. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser., xx, 1867, 221. 



Lepus douglassi var. 1, Gray, Charleswortb's Mag. Nat. Hist., i, 1837, 586. 



t" Lepus cunicuhts Licht.," Waterhouse, Nat. Hist. Mam., ii, 1848, 132. 



As large as Lepus americanus; in coloration, much like L. sylvalicus. 

 Above, yellowish-brown, finely but conspicuously mixed with black ; paler 

 and with less black on the sides. Below, pure white, with the fore neck and 

 breast dusky yellowish-brown. Tail conspicuously pure white below, dark 



