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CONTENTS OF PART X. 



RODENTIA (Rodents) — 



Leporidcs (Hares and Rabbits) . . . . .169 



Genus Oryctolagus . . . . . .172 



The Rabbit or Cony . . . . .176 



The English local names have been revised in part by Mr IV. IV. 

 Skeat, M.A. {assisted by Professor W. IV. Skeat), and in part by 

 Mr C. M. Drennan, M.A. Lond., late Scholar Emm. Coll. Camb. ; 

 the Celtic and Gaelic names by Dr E. S. Quiggin, M.A., Ph.D., 

 Fellow and Lecturer in Modern Languages and Celtic of Gonville 

 and Caius College, Cambridge ; while a list of Scottish Gaelic 

 names have been supplied by Mr C. H. Alston. Valuable 

 assistance has been rendered by Mr M. C. A. Hinion regarding 

 extinct Mammals. 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



Full-page {Black and White). 



Common Shrew — (1) Left Fore and (2) Left Hind Foot. Lesser 

 Shrew — (3) Left Fore and (4) Left Hind Foot. 



Heads of (1) Male and (2) Female Rabbit, to show sexual differences. 

 Side view. 



Heads of (1) Male and (2) Female Rabbit, to show sexual differences. 

 Front view. 



Rabbits. 



Figures in Text. 

 Diagram of Spoor of a Hare or Rabbit. 

 Side view of Skull of Oryctolagus cuniculus. 

 Diagram showing Interparietal Region of Skull in — (1) Oryctolagus ;. 



(2) Lepus. 

 Magnified diagrammatic view of transverse section of anterior surface 



of a large Upper Incisor of (1) Oryctolagus, and (2) Lepus. 

 Section of Simple Burrow in open Field. 



Section of Old Rabbit Burrow (C) ; enlarged by fox and badger (A). 

 Plan of Complicated Burrow with five entrances. 

 Plan (diagrammatic) of a Rabbit Burrow at Cappagh, Co. Waterford. 

 Plan of a portion of a Second Burrow, partially excavated, at Cappagh, 



Co. Waterford. 

 Section of Closed Stop or Nursery. 

 Section of Closed Stop at side of Marsh Dyke. 

 Section of Stop enlarged by a solitary Old Rabbit. 



