LEPUS. 415 



ears sparsely haired, reddish brown outside, with a narrow white 

 border anteriorly ; curved black line at corner of eye across cheek ; tail 

 reddish brown above, white below; feet fulvous above, soles dusky. 



Measurements. Total length, 520; tail to end of hairs, 83; hind 

 foot, 105; ear, 65. Skull: total length, 87; basal length, 79; zygomatic 

 breadth, 40; mastoid breadth, 32; interorbital constriction, 32; 

 length of nasals, 35 ; of lower jaw, 63 ; height of coronoid process, 37. 



428. palustris (Lcpns), Bachm., Journ. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1837, 

 p. 194, pis. 15, 16. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 279. 



douglasi Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1837, p. 586. 

 SWAMP HARE. Conejo in Mexico. 



Type locality. Eastern South Carolina? 



Geogr. Distr. Yucatan, Mexico, north to Texas; Florida; and 

 North Carolina. 



Genl. Char. Size of L. sylvaticus, tail shorter; ears broader, more 

 rounded; head larger; nails of toes exposed; incisors and molars, 

 broader and heavier. 



Color. Above yellowish brown tinged with rufous or rusty (the 

 latter especially on the rump and outside of legs), and heavily shaded 

 with black; beneath grayish white; fore neck, breast, and sides yellow- 

 ish brown; chin grayish white; throat brownish gray; ear grayish 

 rufous lined with black; tail above rufous and black, beneath grayish 

 white; soles brownish. 



Measurements. Total length, 444; tail vertebrae, 38; hind foot, 88; 

 ear, 64. Skull: total length, 79; greatest width, 38; interorbital 

 width, 15; lateral length of nasals, 32; posterior width of nasals, 19; 

 length of upper molar series, 1 5 ; length of lower jaw, 60. 



429 truii (Lepus), Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1890, p. 192. 

 TRUE'S SWAMP HARE. 



Type locality. Mirador, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. 



Geogr. Distr. State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. 



Genl. Char. Similar to L. palustris, darker, smaller; skull with 

 comparative differences. 



Color. Similar to L. palustris, but smaller in size and more mixed 

 with black on upper parts, especially on the dorsal region; beneath 

 pale yellowish except a broad yellowish brown pectoral band; ears 

 black and rufous ; feet pale rufous. 



Measurements. Total length, 335; hind foot, 75; ear from crown, 

 54. Skull: basal length, 57; greatest zygomatic breadth, 35; inter- 

 orbital constriction, 25; mid-palatal length, n; length of nasals, 27; 

 length of upper molar series, 14; height of lower jaw at coronoid 

 process, 32. (ex Type.) 



