DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. 



Plate i . — Photographs from life of rabbits described in the text. 



Fig. I. (5^248, 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- C?45) ^ short-eared, Himalayan albino, angora rabbit. 



4. 9 400, daughter of c? 248, fig. i, and of his sister 9 247, 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 43i, plate 3, fig. 9, in a mating with her son 



C? 176, a half-blood lop similar in appearance to his sister 9 I75) 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 9 431. the "Belgian hare," a gray rabbit with short ears. 



ID. 9 175) ^ gray half-blood lop, daughter of 9 43i> %• 9, and the old (J* lop, a yellow 

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



11. 9322, a gray three-quarter blood lop, daughter of old female lop, plate i, fig. 2, 



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

 the appearance of (J* 176. 



12. c?38i, son of 9 175, fig- 10, and her brother, c?i76; an F2 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 c?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 

 6^45 (plate i, fig. 3). 



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