VOL. XVI, PP. 145-146 NOVEMBER 12, 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



A NEW HARE FROM GREECE, 

 BY GERRIT S. MILLER, JR. 



[By permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution,] 



A hare from Mount Parnassus, Greece, recently procured by 

 the United States National Museum, differs conspicuously from 

 all of the forms related to Lepus europceus that have been 

 recognized during the past few years. As no name has as yet 

 been applied to the Grecian hare the animal may be known as: 



Lepus parnassius, sp. nov. 



Tgpe. Adult male (skin and skull), No. 122,093, United States National 

 Museum. Collected at Agorianni, north side of Lyakura (Parnassus) 

 Alts., Greece, September 10, 1895. Received from Wilhelm Schluter, 

 of Halle, on the Saale, Germany. 



Characters. Intermediate in size between British specimens of Lepus 

 occidentalis, and Swiss examples of L. europceus, but nearer the latter. 

 General color less yellow than in the related forms; ears grayish instead 

 of yellowish, and with much more extensive black area at tip; rump 

 scarcely different from back. Skull with rostrum much less heavily 

 built than that of Lepus europaus. 



Color. Hairs of dorsal surface, with four color bands. Beginning at 



the base there are (1) whitish smoke-gray, 12 mm., (2) black, 7 mm., (3) 



pinkish-butt', 5 mm., (4); black, 5 mm. The general effect is a coarse 



grizzle of black and pinkish-buff, the latter very slightly in excess, much 



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