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Bangs The American Varying Hares. 



told that these hares were caught near Halifax. It will be interesting to 

 watch their career in Newfoundland and see how long it will take the 

 modifying influences of the new island home to work a change. If I 

 might hazard a guess, this will he in the direction of still darker color 

 ation. 



Measurements of the eastern races of Lepus americanus (adult specimens). 



