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LEPUS NIGBONUGHALIS sp. not. 



By ERNST ILAETEET. 



Similis Lep. hi-asilientsi Liun., sed differt couspicna stria lata lininnescentc 

 uigra al) occipite ad intra Lumeros vergente. 



THE fur is similar to that of other bares. Colour above brown, merging into 

 pale asliy above the tail and on the thighs, irregularly marked with brownish 

 black, the hairs being greyish white at base, brownish black at tip, and 

 having a broad buffy white subterminal ring. Underfur woolly and of a pale 

 brownish grey colour. Underside of the head, a narrow line round the nose, the 

 whole breast and belly as well as the inside of the legs white, tinged witii buff on 

 the fore-legs. Neck greyish buff below, ashy white on the sides ; from the beginning 

 of the occijuit to between the shoulders extends a broad brownish black band, an 

 inch wide at beginning, gradually becoming narrower. Length about 14 inches, 

 tail about 1 inch; ears 2|, whitish at base, brownish in the middle, darker on the 

 tip, and with a narrow white fringe all round. Iris brown. 



The single specimen which I brought home, a male, seems to be full grown, 

 although the skull shows that it is a somewhat young individual. 



Unfortunately the skull is partly destroyed by the shot, and I have not a skull 

 of Lepus brasiliensis to compare ; therefore comparative descriptions of the skulls 

 of L. nigronuckalis and L. braHtliemis will be given later, when I hoj)e to have 

 additional material. 



My type of X. nlgronuchalis is in the Tring Museum. 1 shot it ou the island 

 of Aruba, on the north coast of Venezuela, where it is apparently not very rare, 

 though by no means numerons. 



Probably the same hare inhabits the island of Cnraeao, where I saw it several 

 times, but always at such unf'urtuuate moments that I was not able to shoot one. 



The Dutch residents on Aruba and Curasao call it a rabbit, but it does not 

 burrow like rablnts. It lives in the scrub and among the rocks, resting during the 

 daytime in its form, like the European hare. 



ON TUBTUROENA SHABPEI Salvad. AND 08M0TBEB0N 

 EVEBETTI Hv. nov. 



By TJIE HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD. 



(PI. III.) 



CiOUNT SALVADORI described Turturoeim skarjici very venturously from u 

 ; head and neck only in the British Museum (Gat. B., .\xi. p. 329 [1893]). I 

 now find among some birds collected by the late Emin Pasha a complete 

 skin of this species, which confirms ('onnt Salvadori's opinion. I therefore have 

 much pleasure in completing his description and giving a jjlate of the bird. 



