LEPORIDA—LEPUS CAMPESTRIS. 297 
LEPUS CAMPESTRIS Bachman. 
Prairie Hare. 
Lepus variabilis Lewis, Barton’s Med. and Phys. Journ., ii, 1806, 159.—GopMan, Am. Nat. Hist., ii, 1826, 169. 
Lepus virginianus var.? Haran, Faun. Amer., 1825, 310. 
Lepus virginianus RICHARDSON, Faun. Bor.-Am., i, 1829, 224.—PRINCE MAXIMILIAN, Reise in das innere 
Nord-Amer., i, 1839, 508. 
Lepus campestris BACHMAN, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, 1887, 349; viii, 1839, 80.—WAaTERHOUSE, Nat. 
Hist. Mam., ii, 1848, 127.—GimBEL, Siiuget., 1855, 449.—Bairp, Mam. N. Am., 1857, 585, pl. 
lvi, fig. 2 (skull).—Nrewberry, Pacific R. R. Ex. and Surv., vi, iv, 1857, 62.—Coorprr, Pacific 
131.—MaxIMILIANn, Wiegm. Arch., 1861, Bd. i, 145.—HaybEn, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. Phila., xii, 
1862, 148.—Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d series, xx, 1867, 224.— ALLEN, Bull. Essex Insti- 
tute, vi, 1874, 52, 58, 61, 66. 
Lepus Townsendi BACHMAN, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 1839, 90, pl. ii; Townsend’s Narrative, 
1839, 325.—Aup. & Bacu., Quad. N. Am., i, 1849, 25, pl. iii —Coorrr, Am. Nat., ii, 1868, 536. 
In winter, white, more or less tinged with yellowish-brown on the middle 
of the back; top of the head and anterior surface of the ears pale yellowish- 
brown, varying to whitish; ears tipped with black. Under fur white at the 
base, passing through pale yellowish-brown to deep reddish-brown. The 
hairs of the back white at the tip, with a subterminal band of brown, varying 
in different specimens from yellowish-brown to dark reddish-fuscous. 
In summer, entire upper parts, breast, anterior surface of the ears, and 
the legs pale yellowish-gray, this color gradually passing into white on the 
sides. Fur of the under parts, excepting the breast, pure white to the roots. 
Nape and lower two-thirds of the ears white; upper third of the ears brown- 
ish-black. Fringes of the ears creamy-brown, bordered with white. Sides 
and ends of the muzzle yellowish-brown. Tail white on both surfaces, with 
oceasionally a faint, median, ashy line above. Occasionally, a small oval spot 
of white on the middle of the forehead. The under fur of the upper surface 
in summer varies in different specimens from whitish-gray to grayish-plumbe- 
ous at base, then pale fulvous, passing into black. The hairs are generally 
black at the extreme tip, with a broad subterminal bar of pale yellowish-gray ; 
below, the black bar passes gradually into whitish at the base. A few hairs 
entirely black are generally intermixed. The tail is very long, equaling the 
length of the head. Ears very long, about one-fourth longer than the head. 
Hind feet rather longer than the ears. Length of the hody, 19 to 23 inches ; 
of the tarsus, 5.50 to 6 inches; of the ear, 4.75 to nearly 6 inches. 
Of some fifteen specimens before me in winter pelage, not more than one 
in five has the whole dorsal surface pure white. The reddish-brown subter- 
minal zone shows through the white tips of the hairs more or less in nearly all 
