various American Mammals. 319 



supposed to be due to accidental splashes of some preserva- 

 tive, and were therefore ignored in the description, appear 

 almost or quite symmetrical. Consequently, although I still 

 think my original idea about them may be correct (for they are 

 not exactly symmetrical), yet some mention of them should be 

 made on the chance that they are natural markings. 



The most striking consist of five small red patches — one 

 above and one below each eye and one on the face between 

 the eyes (the latter is not exactly in the middle line). Round 

 the base of each ear, and on the ears themselves, various hairs 

 are of the same red colour. The upper anterior face of each 

 forearm is washed with red, and there are some red-tipped 

 hairs on each side of the rump. In addition, many of the 

 hairs of the belly are of a dull red colour, not of the same 

 shade as the face-markings ; but this is nearly certainly due 

 to staining, whatever may prove to be the case with the face- 

 and arm-patches. 



JEpeomys vulcani, Thos.* 



Two further specimens of this interesting rat sent by 

 Mr. L. Soderstrom from Mount Pichincha have considerably 

 longer tails than the type, in which this member seems to 

 have been unnaturally shortened. One has a tail of 125 and 

 the other 135 millim. in length. 



Lepus sylvaticus, Bachm. 

 (Journ. Ac. Philad. (1) vii. p. 403, 1837.) 



In reference to this name, the following seems to be of 

 unfortunate pertinence : — 



Lepus borealis sylvaticus^ Nilsson 



(Illiiuiinerade Figurer till Skandinaviens Fauna, i. Mammals, 

 text to pi. xxii., 1832) ; 



therefore antedating by five years the uame given by Bach- 

 man to the common " Cotton-tail " of the Eastern United 

 States. 



Taking the species in the wider sense recognized by 

 Dr. Allen in the ' Monographs of North-American Rodentia,' 

 the next name (or, rather, by page-priority, an earlier name) 

 would be 



* Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) i. p. 462 (1898). 



