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RODENTIA 



1. Slype, Flanders, Belgium. Andrew van Iseghcm 2.11.3.1. 



(c & p). 



?. Paris. A. Forsyth Major (p). 97. 2. 19. 1. 



3. Brunswick, Germany. G. Barrett - Hamilton 8. 9. 29. 1-3. 



i. Ingelheim, Rheinhessen. G. Barrett - Hamilton 11.1.2.110. 



(Hilgert.) (p). 



6. S. Germany. Dr. A. Giinther (c). 59. 9. G. 38-43. 



Lepus europ^us occidentalis de Winton. 



1898. Lepus europxus occidentalis de Winton, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 7th ser., i, p. 152, February, 1898. Type in British ^Museum. 



1906. L[e2ms] e\i(,ropxus] occidentalis Hilzheimer, Zool. Anzeiger, xxx, 

 p. 512, August 14, 1906. 



1910. Lepus europiums occidentalis Trouessart, Faune !Mamm. d'Europe 

 p. 220. 



Ti/jjc locah'fi/. — Herefordshire, England. 



Gcoijrapliical distrihntiun. — England, the Isle of Man and the 

 lower, more cultivated portions of Scotland, north to the Orkney 

 and Shetland Islands, the northern limits of the range much 

 extended artificially ; introduced in Ireland* ami Switzerland. 



Diagnositi. — Similar to Lejnis enropseiis rin-dpiens, but bufly 

 tints rich and dark, approaching the ochraceous-buff of Kidgway. 



Colour. — Underfur as in L. eurojtseus europseun, except that 

 the dark portion is more nearly black. Longer hairs with the 

 black tips better developed and the sub-terminal annulations a 

 dark ochraceous-bluft", showing in certain lights a decided tinge 

 of tawny. This tawny becomes clear and tinged with rufous 

 along sides and on inguinal patches, though it is duller and with 

 a decided clay-colour cast on collar. Rump as in L. europseus 

 europseus. Grey winter pelage : all the buffy tints replaced by 

 light grey, the exact shade of which is very uniform in the six 

 specimens examined. It is somewhat paler than the smoke-grey 

 of Ridgway and distinctly more blue, somewhat approaching the 

 grey No. 7, though not so dark. A very slight cream-buff wash 

 may be detected on cheeks, sides of neck and of shoulders, and 

 on collar. 



SJiull and teeth. — The skull averages slightly smaller than in 

 L. europseus europseus, the occipitonasal length rarely attaining 

 100 mm. The teeth, however, are fully as large as in the 

 continental animal. 



Measurements.— Two adults from the Isle of Man : head and 

 body, 538 and 548 ; tail, 67 and 89 ; hind foot, 131 and 134 ; 

 ear from crown, 105 and 110. Type (adult female) : head and 

 body, 570 ; tail, 86 ; hind foot, 135 ; ear from crown, 101. Two 

 adult females from Merton Hall, Norfolk : head and body, 575 

 and 583 ; tail, 80 and 90 ; hind foot, 141 and 135 ; ear from 

 crown, 120 and 98. Adult female (grey pelage) from Pangbourne, 



See Barrett-Hamilton, The Irish Naturalist, ilarch, 1898, pp. G9-7G.i 



