RODENTIA LEPORIDAE LEPUS AMERICANUS. 



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List of specimens. 



* Longest claw of fore and hind feet, .60. 



LEPUS AMEKICANUS, Erxl. 



Northern Hare. White Rabbit. 



Lepus americanus, ERXLEBEN, Syst. 1777, 330. (From Forster & Pennant ) 



GMELIN, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 162. 



SHAW, Gen. Zool. Mamm. II, 1801, 202. 



RICHARDSON, App. Parry's 2d Voyage, 1825, 324. IB. F. Bor. Am. I, 1829, 217. 



BACHMAN, J. A. N. Sc. Ph. VII, 1837, 403. IB. VIII, i, 1839, 76. 



DEKAT, N. Y. Zool. I, 1842, 95 ; pi. xxvi, f. 2. 



WAGNER, Suppl. Scbreb. IV, 1844, 104. 



WATERHOUSE, N. H. Mamm. II, 1848, 108. 



AUD. & BACH. N. Am. Quad. I, 1849, 93 ; pi. xi, xii. 

 Lepus hudsonius, PALLAS, Glires, 1778, 30. 



BODDAERT, Elenchus Anim. I, 1784, 99. 

 ZIMMERMANN, Pennant's Arktische Zool. I, 1787, 96. 



Lepus nanus, SCHREBER, Saugt. II, 1792, 881. (In part only, the figure pi. ccxxxiv, B. appears to be L. sylvaticus.) 

 Lepus virainianus, HARLAN, F. Am. 1825, 196. 



FISCHER, Synopsis, 1829. 



DOUGHTT'S Cab. N. H. I, 1830, 217 ; pi. xix. 



BACHMAN, J. A. N. Sc. Phil. VH, 1837, 301. IB. VIII, 1839, 76. 



THOMPSON, N. H. Vermont, 1842, 48. 



Lepus variabUis, var. virginianus, GODMAN, Am. N. H. II, 164. 

 Lepus borealis, SCHINZ, Synopsis II, 1845, 286. 

 American Hare, FORSTER, Phil. Trans. LXII, 376. 



PENNANT, Hist. Quad. 1781, No. 243. IB. Arctic Zool. I, 1784, 95. 

 Hudson's Say Quadruped, BARRINGTON, Phil. Trans. LXII, 11. 



SP. CH. Larger than the common gray rabbit. Ears about the length of the head. Hind foot much longer. Tail 

 short. Color, in summer, very similar to that of the European hare ; rich reddish or cinnamon brown above ; tail sooty 

 brown above, dull grayish beneath ; body beneath white ; ears black at the tip of the dorsal surface, this extending down 

 the margins ; the fringe and posterior edge white. 



In winter, white, though usually showing a good deal of yellowish brown between the tip of the long hairs ; the under 

 fur plumbeous from the roots for the basal half, then brownish red. Ears white, except the external band. 



