348 MONOGRAPHS OF NORTH AMERICAN RODENTIA. 
TaBLE XLV.—Measurements of LEPUS GRAYSONI. 
Teas : 
| 2 B | From tip of nose to— | TMi! to end |r enon of 
| # 4 | of— 5 
5 8 = i 
eeu =| j A = o 
} A Locality. | g 2 = a Collected by— 
| &® | 3 = BS 2 | Ss 
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| £ ‘ey i 2 | a 8 ‘3 5 ‘a 5 ti So 
| § n is) <3) o | a > yy is iss) ies) 
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8318 | 135 | Tres Marias Islands - -- Q , 1.63 | 2.90 | 3.25 /14.50 | 0.75 |.---. 1.50 | 3.40 | 2.40) A. J. Grayson. 
| 11409 }.-..--- Talamanca, Costa Rica .|....-.. | 1.65 | 2.90 | 3. 25 peecse 1.20 | 1.90 | 1.75 | 3.60 , 2.20 | J. Carmiol. 
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LEPUS BRASILIENSIS Linn. 
Brazilian Hare; Tapeti. 
Lepus brasiliensis BRISSON, Reg. Anim., 1756, 141.—LinN us, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, 1766, 78.— ERXLEBEN 
Syst. Reg. Anim., 1777, 336.—GMELIN, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 164.—ScHREBER, Siuget., iv, 1792, 
902.—SHaw, Gen. Zool., ii, 1801, 208.—Azara, Paraguay, ii, 1801, 57.—DErsmarrtsT, Mam- 
malogie, 1822, 351.—MaxIMILIAN, Beitriige z. Naturg. Bras., ii, 1826, 450.—FIscHER, Synop. 
Mam., 1829, 375.—TscHup1, Fauna Peruana, i, 1844, 198.—WaAGNER, Schreber’s Siiuget., 
Suppl., iv, 1844, 116.—WarteErHoussE, Nat. Hist. Mam., ii, 1848, 141.—G1eBEL, Singet., 1855, 
450.—FRANTzIUS, Wiegm. Arch., 1869, i, 276 (Costa Rica)—HensreL, Abhand. d. phys. 
Klasse d. kénigl. Akad. d. Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1872, 62 (Southern Brazil)..—ALLEN, 
Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xvii, 1875, 435. 
Lepus tapeti PALLAS, Nov. Sp. Glires, 1778, 30.—ZIMMERMANN, Geograph. Gesch., ii, 1780, 334. 
Tapeti brasiliensis Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser., xx, 1867, 224. 
“ Tapeti brasiliensibus, MARCGRAVE, Brazil, 223.” 
About the size of Lepus sylvaticus, or a little smaller; ears rather longer 
than in that species, and the tail shorter. Fur rather short and harsh; feet 
rather sparsely clothed, above yellowish-brown, varied with black, not very 
different in coloration from Lepus palustris; sides of the nose, orbital ring, 
throat, and abdomen white; legs and nape-patch bright rufous, the latter 
whitish on the inner side. Tail brown above, rufous yellow below. 
Of this species I have very few specimens, and am hence unable to give 
much original information respecting it. Its reputed range extends through- 
out the greater part of South America, from Paraguay northward to Central 
America. With such a wide range, it would be surprising if it preserved 
everywhere uniform characters. 
Waterhouse refers to two specimens from Bolivia, one of which, ‘an 
extremely young specimen,” differs from the other in being blacker, and in 
having the rufous of the limbs, nape-patch, ete., of a brighter tint; in other 
words, having the colors much more intense. A half grown and rather 
faded specimen in the present collection from “Vermeto”, Paraguay (the only 
one I have from South America), is not very appreciably different in color 
from ordinary specimens of L. palustris, though rather paler. The ears, 
however, are longer, and the tail shorter, the latter rufous-yellow below 
instead of white. A specimen from Chiriqui and two others from Costa 
