364 MONOGRAPHS OF NORTH AMERICAN RODENTIA. 
TABLE LVII.—List of specimens of LEPUS PALUSTRIS. 
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* Specimens from the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, Cambridge, Mass. 
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LEPUS AQUATICUS Bachman. 
Water Hare. 
Lepua aquaticus BACHMAN, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, 1837, 319, pl. xxii, fig. 2; viii, 1839, 78.—WaTER- 
HOUSE, Nat. Hist. Mam., ii, 1848, 112.—Aup. & Bacu., Quad. N. Am., i, 1849, 287, pl. xxxvii.— 
BarrD, Mam. N. Am., 1857, 612, pl. lix, fig. 1 (skull).—ALLEN, Proc, Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xvii, 
1875, 435.—LincEcuM, Am. Nat. vi, 1872, 771 (distribution and habits). 
Hydrolagus aquaticus Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser., xx, 1867, 221. 
Lepus douglassi var. 1, GRAY, Charlesworth’s Mag. Nat. Hist., i, 1837, 586. 
?“ Lepus cuniculus Licut.,” WATERHOUSE, Nat. Hist. Mam., ii, 1848, 132. 
As large as Lepus americanus; in coloration, much like L. sylvaticus. 
Above, yellowish-brown, finely but conspicuously mixed with black; paler 
and with less black on the sides. Below, pure white, with the fore neck and 
breast dusky yellowish-brown. ‘Tail conspicuously pure white below, dark 
