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THE IRISH HARE. 



LEPUS HIBERNICUS, Anon, in Partington. 

 LEPUS HIBERNICUS, Bell. 



1832. Lepus timidus, John V. Stewart, "A List of, and Remarks on, some of the 

 Mammalious Animals, and the Birds, met with in the Three Years preceding 4th 

 December 1828, on the North Coast of Donegal," London 's Mag. Nat. Hist., v., 

 1832, 579 ; Lydekker, Handbook to the British Mammalia, 1895, 225 ; Barrett- 

 Hamilton, Irish Naturalist, 1895, 90; Thomas, Zoologist, 1898, 101 ; Aflalo ; 

 Johnston ; Scharff, Trans. Roy. Irish Acad., xxxii., B, iv., 199, September 1903, and 

 xxxiii., B, i., 37, February 1906. 



1833. Irish hare, William Yarrell, Proc. Zool. Soc. (London), 88 ; no definite locality 

 or technical name given. 



1835. Lepus timidus var. ft Irish hare, Leonard Jenyns, Manual of British Verte- 

 brate Animals, 35. 



1836. "The Irish hare, L[epus] hibernicus," Charles F. Partington's The Brit. 

 Cyclop. Nat. Hist., ed. i., ii., 705 ; ed. ii., ii., 705, 1842 ; described from Ireland. 



1837. Lepus hibernicus, Thomas Bell, History of British Quadrupeds, ed. i., 341 ; 

 described from Ireland ; MacGillivray ; Thompson, Trans. Boy. Irish Acad., xviii. 

 (sci.), 260, 28th May 1838, 1839, and Nat. Hist. Ireland, iv., 19, 1856; Wood, 

 Illustrated Nat. Hist., "Mammalia," 1861, 584; Sanford, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 

 (London), xxvi., 1870, 127 ; Boulger, Proc. West London Sci. Assoc, 26th October 

 1875, 2 9 > Leith Adams, Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., ser. 2, iii. (sci.), 99, 1883 ; Miller. 



1837. Lepus timidus var. hibernicus, John Templeton, " Irish Vertebrate Animals : 



selected from the Papers of the late John Templeton, Esq., Cranmore. By Robert 



Templeton, Esq.," Charlesworth's Mag. Nat. Hist., i., N.S., 404 ; named only, 



without description. 

 1840. Lepus variabilis, A. Graf Keyserling and J. H. Blasius, Die Wirbelthiere 



Europds, i., vi. and 30 (part) ; Harvey, Fauna and Flora of the Coutity of Cork, 



"Mammalia," 1845,3 > Clermont ; Bell (ed. ii.) ; Leith Adams, Sci. Proc. R. Dublin 



Soc, N.S., ii., 45, 84, 1 8th March 1878, and Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., ser. ii., iii. 



(sci.), 99, 1883; Ball, Sci. Trans. R. Dublin Soc, N.S., iii., 334, 18th May 1885 ; 



Flower and Lydekker ; Lydekker, Catalogue of Fossil Mammals, . . . in the 



Science and Art Museum (Dublin), 1891, 15. 

 1857. Lepus variabilis, a Form der wdr?neren Klimate, J. H. Blasius, Sdugethiere 



Deutschlands, 420 and 424 (part). 

 1891. Lepus variabilis hibernicus, G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, Irish Sportsman, 



22nd August, 428; Hinton, Sci. Proc,. R. Dublin Soc, xii. (N.S.), No. 23, 8th 



September 1909, 257. 

 1900. Lepus timidus hibernicus, G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, Proc Zool. Soc. 



(London), 6th February, 89 ; Millais ; Hilzheimer, Zool. Anseiger, xxx., 511, 14th 



August 1906 ; Trouessart. 

 1900. Lepus timidus lutescens, G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, Proc cit., 89, described 



from a yellowish variety from Donabate, Co. Dublin ; Trouessart. 



Synonomy : — There is here no trouble The name lutescens was 

 applied by me to a yellow variety, which, however, although of con- 



