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240 BULLETIN NO. VII. 
Horearm 6 1ge2s Slaw ew a alee ee tee oo OS 
lbow to end of iclawsiie tess wae ween actrees 4.75 
TiDi ay £5 thygestniek ares FSES, 2 EGLO Ey arais ete ahora eee 3.42 
Hoel to Claws ii ii iecciat wen oe ote assole elays ae ee Je shy reel 
This makes the total length..............0..06. 19.50 
Or 1 in. more than our largest specimen. 
Lepus americanus ERXL. 
VARYING HARE. “WHITE RABBIT.” 
VAR. AMERICANUS. 
Lepus americanus ERXLEBEN, Syst. Reg. Animal., 1777. 
GMELIN, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 162. : 
SHAW, Gen. Zo6]. Mam., iii, 1801, 202. 
DESMAREST, Mammalogie, 1822, 351. 
SABINE, Franklin’s First Journ., 1824. 
RICHARDSON, App. Parry’s Second Voyage, 1825, 324. 
Fauna. Bor. Am., i, 1829, 217. 
Back’s, Arct. Land Exp., 1836. 
FISCHER, Syn. Mam, 1829, 376. 
BACHMAN, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii,1837, 403; viii, 
1839, 76. 
DeKay, New York Zoél., i, 1842, 95. 
WAGNER, Suppl. Schreber’s Siiuget., iv, 1844. 
WATERHOUSH, Nat. Hist. Mam., ii, 1848. 
AUDUBON and BACHMAN, Quad. N. A., i, 1849. 
GIEBEL, Siiugethiere, 1855, 449. 
BAIRD, Mam. N. A., 1857. 
GRAY, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d series, xx, 1867. 
MAXIMILIAN, Wiegm. Archives, 1861. 
Ross, Canad. Nat. and Geol., vi, 1867. 
WELCH, Proc. Zo6]. Soc. London, 1869. 
GILPIN, Proc. and Trans. Nova Scotia. Inst. Nat. Sci., 
iii, 1872. 
Lepus hudsonius PALLAS, Nov. Sp. Glires, 1778. 
BoppDARtT, Elench. Anim., i, 1784. 
ZIMMERMAN, Pennant’s Arktische Zo6l., i, 1887, 96. 
Lepus nanus SCHREBER, Siiuget., ii, 1792. 
Lepus campestris HAYDEN, Am. Nat., iii, 1869. 
DALL, Alaska and its Resources. 
Lepus variabilis var. GODMAN, Am. Nat. Hist., ii, 1826. 
Lepus borealis SCHINTZ, Synop. Mam., ii, 18465. 
Lepus americanus var. americanus ALLEN, Monog. N. A. Rodentia, 1876. 
“American Hare,” FORSTER, PENNANT, ETC. 


