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Lepus Mgyptius, Geoflf. ('Egyptian Hare.) Fur reddish 

 brown ; breast and feet a red fawn-colour ; tail black above, 

 white below ; ears longer than the head, black at the tips. 

 Length fifteen inches. 



Inhabits Egypt. 



Obs. Some Naturalists consider this as identical with the last species, 

 but as I have np opportunity of comparing specimens from both locali- 

 ties I leave it to be decided by those who possess the necessary means. 



Lepus saxatilis, F. Cuvier. Hair moderately soft. Fore- 

 head, crown, hack, and upper portions of sides, finely varie- 

 gated, black, reddish white, and ferruginous, the latter colour 

 sometimes nearly wanting ; muzzle and sides of head bluish 

 ■white, freely pencilled with black ; nape and more or less of 

 sides of neck dull rufous ; Idwer parts of neck, anterior part of 

 breast, lower parts of sides, and outer-surfaces of extremities 

 towards body, greyish white freely pencilled with black, lower 

 .parts of extremities dull white pencilled or tinted with brown ; 

 chin, hinder part of breast, belly, and inner-surfaces of ex- 

 tremities, white ; ears with a thin sprinkling of fine short tawny- 

 white hair on their inner-surfaces, on their outer-surfaces to- 

 wards inner-margins and tips thickly covered with short hair 

 which is variegated blaek and white in the former situation, 

 and entirely black in the latter, the rest of the outer-surfaces 

 with a thin sprinkling of short tawny or whitish hair ; the edges 

 margined with white hair till near the points, where it is black 

 or black and white ; in most specimens there is a small white spot 

 on the forehead. Tail white with a black stripe along its upper 

 surface which terminates a little way from the point ; soles of 

 the feet clothed with long coarse reddish brown hair ; eyes 

 hazel-brown. The bases of the hairs inclined to white. 

 Length from nose to base of tail twenty-four inches ; length of 

 tail six inches : length of ears about six inches and a quarter. 



Inhabits South Africa, — ^mouutainous situations. 



F. Cuvier, Did. des Sc. Nat. xxvl. p. 309. Geoffroy, Diet. 

 Class, ix. J). 382. Rheebok Haas and Kol Haas of the Cape 

 Colonists. 



Lepus nigricollis, F. Cuvier. Top of head sprinkled with 

 yellow ; sides red ; chin grey ; throat white ; a greyish white 

 band from the muzzle to the ears ; upper part and sides of neck 

 and shoulders brigbt black. Size of a rabbit. 



Inhabits Mauritius, Java, and India. 



Lepus isahellinus, Crctzschmar, (Isabella-coloured Hare.) 

 Above a dark isabella-colour, variegated on the head and back 

 by an intermixture of a few black hairs ; the neck and throat 

 of a lighter tint ; chin, belly, inner surfaces of e.xtremities and 



