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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



[vol. 45 



Genera and Species. 



Locality. 



Lepus [Le/>its) tiiin\/its Sweden 



" " cavipestris Kansas. 



" " " Nebraska. 



" " gicJii^nmis Siberia. 



" [Maci'otolagtis) (exinnus Nevada. 



" \PQ:cilolagus') aniericaiiits 



virginiaiiKs New York. 



" sp India: Jumna river. 



Sylvilagus Jloridantis .. Florida. 



1(11 t < 



(( a ill 



(< 41 111 



" " iiia/hirtis Virginia. 



" " trausitioualis... New York. 



" " subspecies Nevada. 



" nuttallii Wyoming. 



" irtiei Mexico. 



" viiriensis Brazil; Chapada. 



Brachylagtis idahoeusis Idaho. 



iVesolagus netscheri * Sumatra. 



Rbinerolagits nelson i Me.\ico. 



Livniolagiis pnliidicohi ' Florida. 



Oryctohigiii ctiniiulits, lop ear domestic. 



" " Germany. 



" " \ England. 



" " Belgian hare., domestic. 

 Pronohigus crassicandattts South Africa. 



Number. 



1,0481 

 1,0491 

 43>623' 

 49,6221 

 18,3032 

 94,198* 



969' 

 49,621' 



49,5861 



49.587' 

 49,5881 



49,589' 

 89.514* 

 49,6241 

 94,1973 

 11,6441 

 92,9653 



113.432' 

 49,6651 



93.695^ 

 93.596^ 



57.954=' 

 49,580' 

 49,3861 



49,645' 

 49,6481 

 49,6771 

 22,972' 



13 

 13 

 '4 

 H 

 12 



15 



14 

 14 



14 



* 



15 



13* 



15 



13* 



13 



* 



II 

 II 



9- 

 9 

 8 



9' 

 II 



17 



16 



17 

 '7- 



3. BrachylagHS, with a total of nine caudals, of which two are of 

 the first form, three of the second, and four of the third. 



4. Limnolagiis, with a total of eleven, of which one is of the first 

 form and five each of the second and third. 



The other genera containing a larger number of species than the 

 above do not show such sharply defined results, but they roughly fall 

 into these groups. 



5. Sylvilagus, having a total of eleven to fifteen caudals, of which 

 usually the first one or two are of the first form, the next five or 

 seven, usually six, of the second form, and the terminal four or seven 

 of the third form. 



^ United States National Museinn. 

 ■ American Museum of Natural History. 



^United States National Museum, Collection of Biological Survey, United' 

 States Department of Agriculture. 

 ■'No specimen seen, taken from original description. (Schlegel, '80, p. 64.) 

 * Series incomplete. 



