LEPUS NETSCHERI. 59 



NOTE XIL 



ON AN ANOMALOUS SPECIES OF HARE DISCOVERED 

 IN THE ISLE OF SUMATRA: LEPUS NETSCHERI. 



BY 



H. SCHLEGEL. 



February 1880. 



The researches of naturalists hitherto made in order to 

 ascertain the geographical range of the hare-tribe have 

 led to the conclusion, that these animals, spread over the 

 whole of America and Europe , over Northern and South- 

 Africa , as well as over a great pnrt of Asia, are not fouad 

 in the neighbouring islands of the Philippines, in the whole 

 Malayan Archipelago, and as appears are more-over wan- 

 ting in the Malayan Peninsula. 



Of the two genera composing the hare-tribe , the one , 

 that of Lagomys, characterized by the entire want of tail, 

 is confined to Northern Asia and the Rocky-Mountains 

 of North-America. The other genus , that of Lepus , is 

 represented iu all the regions inhabited by the hare-tribe 

 in general. An attempt to subdivide this genus in minor 

 groups is attended with numerous difficulties. European 

 sportsmen are iu the habit of designing under the name 

 of „rabbits" the species having the ears, legs and tail 

 shorter than the true hares , and commonly making bur- 

 Notes froin the J-.eydeii IMviseum, Vol. 11. 



