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Prairie-hare, Whitetailed Jack-rabbit or White-jack. 



Lepus campestris Bachman. 



(L. Lepus, a hare; campestris, of the open fields or prairies.) 



Lepus campestris Bachman, 1837, J^^^r. Ac. Nat. Scl. Phil., 

 VII, p. 349. 



Type Locality. — Plains of the Saskatchewan. 



French Canadian, le Lievre. 

 OjiBWAY, Kit'-chee-wah-hoos' (big white rabbit). 

 Cree, Mis-tah'-hoos (big white rabbit). 

 Yankton Sioux, Mah-steen-cha Tung-ka. 

 Ogallala Sioux, Mahs-tin'-shkah. 



SIZE The specimen from which the drawing (Plate XL VI) was 



made is a typical female from Boissevain, Manitoba, collected 

 by A. S. Barton, September 27, 1904. It is 2 feet (608 mm.) 

 from nose tip to root of tail; the tail to tip of bone Is about 

 4 inches (102 mm.). The hind-foot, heel to end of longest 

 claw, is 6 inches (152 mm.) 



WEIGHT An adult specimen which I got at Carberry, Man., 



weighed only 6 pounds. A female shot at Gardner, Montana, 

 August 16, 1897, was in milk; she weighed 7^ pounds. C. W. 

 Nash records that he saw one at Mountain City, Man., that 

 weighed 8 pounds. Dr. S. J. Thompson, of Carberry, shot a 

 large one in his garden and found that it weighed 1 1 pounds. 

 Francis Dickie tells me that on October 8, 1905, he shot a very 

 large one that turned the scale at 12 pounds. These doubtless 

 represent extreme weights; 7 or 8 pounds is about average. 



COLOUR In summer coat, above it Is pale wood brown, faintly 



mottled or peppered with very dark umber, turning clear 

 silvery gray back of the hips. The pepper-and-salt effect 



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