DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. 



PLATE i. Photographs from life of rabbits described in the text. 



FIG. i. (^248, son of the rabbits shown in figs. 2 and 3; ears of intermediate length, hair 



short, color black. 



2. "Old female lop," sooty yellow in color. 

 3- cT45j a short-eared, Himalayan albino, angora rabbit. 

 4. 9 400, daughter of cT 248, fig. i, and of his sister $ 247, a rabbit of like character. 



PLATE 2. Photographs from life of rabbits described in the text. 

 FIG. 5. 9 269, a short-eared albino rabbit. 



6. A litter of four rabbits (640 to 643) borne by 9 269, fig. 5, when mated with c?i79, 



fig. 8. Three are gray, one is black; all have ears of intermediate length, 

 as compared with the parents. 



7. Gray quarter-blood lops borne by 9 431, plate 3, fig. 9, in a mating with her son 



,5*176, a half-blood lop similar in appearance to his sister 9 175, plate 3, fig. 10. 



8. c?i79, a full-blood yellow lop, son of the "old female lop," plate i, fig. 2, and of the 



"old male lop," a yellow rabbit. 



PLATE 3. Photographs from life (except fig. 9) of rabbits described in the text. 

 FIG. 9. Mounted skin of 9 43 J > the "Belgian hare," a gray rabbit with short ears. 



10. ? 175, a gray half-blood lop, daughter of 9 43 1, fig- 9, and the old c? lop, a yellow 



rabbit similar in appearance to his son (^179, plate 2, fig. 8. 



11. 93 22 > a g ra y three-quarter blood lop, daughter of old female lop, plate i, fig. 2, 



and the half-blood lop 1^176; compare fig. 10, which gives a good idea of 

 the appearance of (^176. 



12. 6^381, son of 9 i7S> fig- i> and her brother, 6^176; an F 2 half-blood lop, with the 



same general ear-character as his parents, but yellow in color, like his grand- 

 father. 



PLATE 4. Dorsal and ventral views of the skulls of 3 rabbits. 



In the middle the skull of (^248 (compare plate i, fig. i); at the right the skull of his mother 

 "old female lop" (plate i, fig. 2); and at the left the skull of his father 

 C?45 (plate i, fig. 3). 



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