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THRYONOMYS GREGORIANUS (Thomas). 



1894. Aulacodus gregorianus Thomas, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, vol. 13 p. 

 202. February. (Luiji Reru River, Konu, Kikuyu British East Africa; 

 type in British Mus.) 



Specimen. — One skin and skull, as follows: 

 British East Africa: Kaimosi, 1 (Turner). 



Mr. Turner has noted on the label that this specimen was captured 

 on a grassy hill near Kaimosi, December 10, 1913. 



Order LAGOMORPHA. 



Family LEPORID^. 



Genus LEPUS Linnaus. 



1758. Lepus Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 57. {L. timidus.) 



The East African hares are readily separated into several well- 

 marked forms. In no case does our material show two forms occu- 

 pying the same territory and it would seem probable that complete 

 collections will prove that all the British East African hares, with 

 the exception of L. raineyi, are races of some earlier named species, 

 probably of Lepus capensis. 



LEPUS ISABELLINUS Cretzschmar. 



1828. Lepus isahellinus Cretzschmar, Atlas Reise nord. Afrika von Eduard 

 Riippell, p. 52. (Desert southwest from Ambukol, Sudan; type in 

 Frankfort Museum.) 



1905. Lepus isahellinus Schwann, Novit. Zool., vol. 12, p. 5. January. 



Specimens. — ^Two, from — 

 Sudan: Naikhala (Rothschild). 



LEPUS TIGRENSIS Blanford, 



1869, Lepus tigrensis Blanford, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser, 4, vol. 4„p. 330. 

 November. (Takonda and Adabagi, Abyssinia; "types in British 

 Museum.")' 

 Specimens. — Two, from — 

 Eritrea: Agordat (received from W. F. H. Rosenberg). 



LEPUS RAINEYI HeUer. 



Plate 42. 



1912, Lepus raineyi Heller, Smithsonian Misc, Coll., vol. 59, No. 16, p. 18. 

 July 5. (Longaya Water, 30 miles south of Mount Marsabit, British 

 East Africa; type in U. S. Nat. Mus.) 



Specimens. — Eight, from localities as follows: 



British East Africa: Kara Water, Marsabit Road, 1 (Heller); 

 Lakiundu River, 3 (Heller); Longaya Water, Marsabit Road, 1 

 (Heller); Marsabit Road, 1 (Heller); Mount Lololokwi, 1 (Heller); 

 Quoy Water, Marsabit Road, 1 (Heller) . 



• Blanford, Observations on the Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia, p. 276. London, 1870. 



