RODENTIA—LEPORIDAE—LEPUS AMERICANUS. 
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Spr. Cuo.—Larger than the common gray rabbit. 
Lepus americanus, ERXLEBEN, Syst. 1777, 330. 
+ Longest claw of fore and hind feet, .60. 
LEPUS AMERICANUS, Erxl. 
Northern Hare. 
Guin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 162. 
Suaw, Gen. Zool. Mamm. II, 1801, 202. 
Ricwarpson, App. Parry’s 2d Voyage, 1825, 324.—Is. F. Bor. Am. I, 1829, 217. 
Bacuman, J. A. N. Sc. Ph. VII, 1837, 403.—In. VIII, 1, 1839, 76. 
Dexay, N. Y. Zool. I, 1842, 95; pl. xxvi, f. 2. 
Waenrr, Suppl. Schreb. IV, 1844, 104. 
Warernouse, N. H. Mamm. II, 1848, 108. 
Aup. & Bacu. N. Am. Quad. I, 1849, 93; pl. xi, xii. 
Lepus hudsonius, Pauias, Glires, 1778, 30. 
Bopparrt, Elenchus Anim. I, -1784, 99. 
ZucmerMANN, Pennant’s Arktische Zool. I, 1787, 96. 
Lepus nanus, Scureser, Saugt. I, 1792, 881. 
Lepus virginianus, Haran, F. Am. 1825, 196, 
Fiscuer, Synopsis, 1829. 
Dovucuty’s Cab. N. H. I, 1830, 217; pl. xix. 
Bacuman, J. A. N. Sc. Phil. VU, 1837, 301.—Is. VIII, 1839, 76. 
Tuomeson, N. H. Vermont, 1842, 48. 
Lepus variabilis, var. virginianus, GopMaN, Am. N. H. I, 164. 
Lepus borealis, Scutnz, Synopsis II, 1845, 286. 
American Hare, Forster, Phil. Trans. LXII, 376. 
Pennant, Hist. Quad. 1781, No. 243.—Is. Arctic Zool. I, 1784, 95. 
Thudson’s Bay Quadruped, Barnineron, Phil. Trans. LXU, 11. 
White Rabbit. 
(From Forster & Pennant ) 
Ears about the length of the head. Hind foot much longer. 
(In part only, the figure pl. cexxxiv, B. appears to be L. sylvaticus.) 
Tail 
short. Color, in summer, very similar to that of the European hare; rich reddish or cinnamon brown above ; tail sooty 
brown above, dull grayish beneath ; body beneath white ; ears black at the tip of the dorsal surface, this extending down 
the margins ; the fringe and posterior edge white. 
In winter, white, though usually showing a good deal of yellowish brown between the tip of the long hairs; the under 
fur plumbeous from the roots for the basal half, then brownish red. 
Ears white, except the external band. 
