240 BULLETIN NO. VII. 



Forearm 3.08 



Elbow to end of claws 4 . 75 



Tibia 3.42 



Heel to claws 3 . 58 



This makes the total length 19 . 50 



Or 1 in . more than our largest specimen . 



Lepus americanus ERXL. 



VABYING HARE. "WHITE BABBIT." 



VAR. AMERICANUS. 



Lepus americanus ERXLEBEN, Syst. Beg. Animal., 1777. 



GMELIN, Syst. Nat. , i, 1788, 162. 



SHAW, Gen. Zool. Mam., iii, 1801, 202. 



DESMAREST, Mammal ogie, 1822, 351. 



SABINE, Franklin's First Journ., 1824. 



BICHARDSON, App. Parry's Second Voyage, 1825, 324. 



Fauna. Bor. Am., i, 1829, 217. 



. Back's, Arct. Land Exp., 1836. 



FISCHER, Syn. Mam., 1829, 376. 



BACHMAN, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii,1837, 403; viii, 

 1839, 76. 



DEKAY, New York Zool., i, 1842, 95. 



WAGNER, Suppl. Schreber's Sauget., iv, 1844. 



WATERHOUSE, Nat. Hist. Mam., ii, 1848. 



AUDUBON and BACHMAN, Quad. N. A., i, 1849. 



GIEBEL, Saugethiere, 1855, 449. 



BAIRD, Mam. N. A., 1857. 



GRAY, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d series, xx, 1867. 



MAXIMILIAN, Wiegm. Archives, 1861. 



Boss, Canad. Nat. and Geol., vi, 1867. 



WELCH, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1869. 



GILPIN, Proc. and Trans. Nova Scotia Inst. Nat. Sci., 



iii, 1872. 

 Lepus hudsonius PALLAS, Nov. Sp. Glires, 1778. 



BODD^ERT, Elench. Anim., i, 1784. 



ZIMMERMAN, Pennant's Arktische Zool., i, 1887, 96. 

 Lepus nanus SCHREBER, Sauget., ii, 1792. 

 Lepus campestris HAYDEN, Am. Nat., iii, 1869. 



DALL, Alaska and its Besources. 



Lepus variabilis var. GODMAN, Am. Nat. Hist., ii, 1826. 

 Lepus borealis SCHINTZ, Synop. Mam., ii, 1845. 



X,epus americanus var. americanus ALLEN, Monog. N. A. Bodentia, 1876. l 

 "American Hare," FORSTER, PENNANT, ETC. 



