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smaller, with a longer and narrower head, ears half an inch longer, 

 and the fur a much lighter hue. It is very rare in Palestine, occurring 

 only, so far as we yet know, in the Wadys by the Dead Sea. It is the 

 Hare of the Sinaitic Peninsula. 



27. Lcpiis cvgyptins. Geoffr. Dcscr. de I'Egypte. Mamm., t. 6. 

 Egyptian Hare. 



The Common Hare of the southern region of Judaja, of the wilderness 

 of Beersheba and of the Jordan valley. It is smaller than our Hare, the 

 body from nose to root of tail measuring only eighteen inches. The ears 

 are long, fringed inside with white hairs. It is of a light sand colour 

 above, and almost white beneath. 



It is found through all the desert parts of Egypt, reaching Palestine 

 from the south-west, as the preceding species does from the south- 

 east. 



28. Lcpus isabellinus. Rupp. Atlas, p. 52, tab. 20. Nubian Hare. 



The Nubian Hare is very rare, only found in the sandy deserts of the 

 south-east. I possess one specimen, which I found there, and never have 

 seen another. It is of a rich fawn yellow colour, lighter than that of the 

 Egyptian Hare, which it generally resembles, but is decidedly smaller. 

 It is the Hare of Nubia and Senaar, but not of Abyssinia or Egypt. The 

 distribution of these various Hares seems to be not so much geographical 

 as dependent on the character of the soil, and their ranges overlap and 

 cross each other most irregularly. 



29. Lcpus judc^cB. Gray. Q) = L. craspedotis. Blanf. Eastern 

 Persia, vol. ii., p. 80. 



Dr. Gray named as above a specimen collected by me, forming for it 

 and L. incditcrrancjis, a new genus, Eulagos ('Ann. and Mag. Nat. 

 Hist.,' Third Series, vol. xx., p. 222). It seems to me that it is so 

 near the Persian species, L. craspedotis, described by Mr. Blanford, 

 that I hardly like to separate them. It is found in the north-east of 

 Palestine. 



