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hind foot 4*5 (Tickell). A female skin in spirit is smaller, hind 

 foot 4-1 ; the skull measures basal length 2-7, extreme length 3*4, 

 zygomatic breadth 1-6. 



' Distribution. Burma ; in the Irrawaddy valley as far down as 

 Henzada, wanting near the coast and in dense forest. Not re- 

 corded from Arrakan, but found to the southwest as far as the 

 Thoungyin valley west of Moulmein (Stray Feathers, ix, p. 141) 

 and perhaps farther south. I am indebted to Major Bingham 

 for a good skin of this species, of which there was until recently 

 no specimen in Europe. 



323. Lepus tibetanus. The Afghan Hare. 



Lepus craspedotis, Blanf. Eastern Persia, ii, p. 80, pi. viii. 

 Lepus biddulphi, Blanf. J. A. S. B. xlvi, pt. 2, p. 324. 



Ears broad. Fur soft. 



Colour above varying from light greyish to light rufescent brown 

 mixed with black, the rump sometimes with an ashy tinge ; lower 

 parts white, except the breast which is light brown. Tail with a 

 broad black band above. Dorsal fur ashy at the base, varying in 

 depth of tint, passing into whitish, then black or dark brown fol- 

 lowed by a very pale brown ring and the extreme tip black. Often, in 

 winter fur, longer fine black-tipped hairs are intermixed on the back. 

 Outside of the ears brown in front, behind buff, passing into black at 

 the tip. In most specimens the ear-conch is margined with buff. 



Dimensions. Head and body 19 inches, tail 3-5 (with hair 5), ear 

 5, breadth of do. 3, hind foot and tarsus 4-8. Weight 3| Ibs. The 

 skull is 2'7o inches in basal length and 1*7 in zygomatic breadth. 



Distribution. The upper Indus valley (Little Tibet), the greater 

 part of Afghanistan, and Baluchistan. This hare is found as low 

 as 500 feet above the sea in the latter (L. craspedotis). I have shot 

 it on the Khirthar range west of Sind and near Quetta. 



324. Lepus oiostolus. The woolly Hare. 



Lepus oiostolus, Hodgson, J. A. S. B. ix, p. 1186 (1840), xi, p. 288. 

 Lepus pallipes, Hodgson, J. A. 8. B. xi, p. 288, pi. (1842), Blan- 



ford, Yark. Miss., Mam. p. 62. 

 ? Lepus tibetanus, Blanf. J. A. 8. B. xli, pt. 2, p. 34, nee Water- 



JRif/ong, Tibetan. 



Ears densely clad outside and exceeding the head in length. 

 Fur soft, thick, woolly, slightly curled in adults, more so in the 

 young. Postorbital processes in the skull large, broad, and bent 

 upwards, so that the frontal area between the orbits is broad and 

 concave. 



Colour above light yellowish brown mixed with dark brown, rump 



