106 Miller-Bany* A new Kahhif front HVxfrr// Florida. 



Description. 



Type specimen No. 1451 9 a d. Coll. E. A. and O. Bangs, Boston. 

 From Fort Island, near Crystal River, Florida, Jan. 28, 1894. F. L. Small 

 collector. Total length 438 mm ; tail vertebra? 35 mm; hind foot 81 mm ; 

 (taken in flesh by collector) ; ear 45 mm ; (taken from dried skin). 



Color of upper parts russet* with black hairs thickly intermixed ; the black 

 hairs predominating on the middle of the back and sides of the head and 

 neck and gradually becoming less conspicuous on the sides, rump and legs. 

 The patch running from between the ears back over the nape is a little 

 brighter than the rest of the upper parts, being a clear bright russet,* with 

 out inter mixture of black-tipped hairs. 



Color of the under parts dirty smoke grayt becoming pale cinnamon rufous? 

 on the under side of the flanks. Baud on the under side of the neck wood 

 brown+. Upper side of feet pale russet* with the lower side of the hind 

 feet much darker, almost seal brown || ; ears dark russet* bordered on the 

 outer edge by an indistinct line of blackish, and outside this an almost 

 white line running half way up the ear. The feet are very thinly haired 

 and the nails very conspicuous. 



Lepus palustris and L. paludicola show no differences in color 

 that might not readily intergrade; but the skulls and ears of 

 the two are so different as to lead to the opinion that they 

 are two distinct species, rather than local races of the same 

 species. In all the specimens examined, no sign of inter grad 

 uation can be found. Therefore it seems best to accord L. 

 paludicola full specific rank for the present, or until intergrades 

 do turn up. 



*Journal Acad. Nat. Sciences of Phila., Vol. vii, Pt. II, p. 194, 336. 

 *Nomenclature of Colors, Ridgway, Plate III, No. 16. 

 fNomenclature of Colors, Ridgway, PI. II, No. 12. 

 ^Nomenclature of Colors, Ridgway, PL IV, No. 16. 

 {Nomenclature of Colors, Ridgway, PI. Ill, No. 10. 

 1 1 Nomenclature of Colors, Ridgway, PI. Ill, No. 1. 



