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with a broad subterminal band of buff; sides of head and body- 

 slightly lighter and lacking the long dark hairs, buffy rather than 

 tawny in tone ; limbs colored like the body ; ears clothed with short, 

 chiefly buffy hairs, showing narrow dark annulations; underparts 

 vermiculated buffy and hair-brown, the individual hairs all tipped 

 by a broad band of buff; chin and lips whitish; tail rusty at base, 

 clothed above by tawny hairs, and below by buff ones. 



Measurements. — Head and body, 370 mm.; tail, 115; hind foot, 

 61 ; ear, 29. Skull : greatest length, 71 ; condylo-incisive length, 63 ; 

 basilar length, 55 ; zygomatic breadth, 45 ; inter orbital constriction, 

 21; nasals, 24 x 12; palatilar length, 28.5; diastema, 15; palatal 

 foramina, 8.5; maxillary toothrow, 15; condylo-incisive length of 

 mandible, 46 ; coronoid-angular depth, 25. 



Four specimens of this new race are in the collection, two of these 

 are from .the type locality, and the others are from Maji-ya-chunvi. 

 It is a very small form, and confined to the desert country flanking 

 the moist coast belt. 



The large, widespread species, T. szinnderianus, occurs in the lit- 

 toral zone at the mouth of the Tana River, and no doubt extends 

 southward along the coast to the cape region. There is at present, 

 however, no record of its actual occurrence with the races of the 

 smaller species allied to gregorianus. 



LEPUS RAINEYI, new species 

 Marsabit Hare 



Type from Longaya Water, 30 miles south of Mt. Marsabit, 

 British East Africa; adult female; number 181808, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 collected by Paul J. Rainey, July 21, 1911; Heller number, 3061. 



Characters. — Most closely allied to crawshayi, from which it 

 differs in lighter coloration and lack of tawny on sides of body and 

 rump; differs from somalensis by absence of vinaceous suffusion; 

 general body color similar to salce, but feet buffy with fulvous pads, 

 not white with drab pads, as in that species. 



Coloration. — General dorsal coloration buffy-gray, lined with 

 black, the black heaviest over mid dorsal line ; rump and sides purer 

 gray, without any buffy suffusion; nape and feet ochraceous, the 

 pads fulvous ; head tawny-ochraceous, lined sparingly with black ; 

 ears ochraceous, edged on inner margin by long buffy fringe, the 

 extreme tip blackish and the outer side at base bordered by white; 

 underparts white, the hair white to the roots, except on the throat, 



