LEPOUID^— LEPUS liUASILlENBIB VAU. GAKBI. 



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llica (one uf them quite immature) are mucli more yellow above tliaii llio 

 Pumim specimen, the gencrnl color above being yellowiBli-rufouH mixed 

 with black. The ears are also fully one-fourth shorter than in the Parana 

 Hpecimen, and considerably shorter than the meiAurements given by Water- 

 house. The ditFercnces are so striking that at first I was inclined to regard 

 the Costa liican specimens us specifically distinct from the South American 

 L. brasUknm, and I propose fiimlly to treat them us varietally distinct, under 

 the subspecific designation of gabbi, which may be characterized as follows ; 



LEPUS BRASILIENSI8 var. GABBI. 

 Central Aaerlran Hare. 



Size of Lepus trotobridgei ; ears very short; tail rudimentary. AI)ovo 

 pale cinnamon-brown, strongly varied with blackish. Whole upper surface 

 of the head bright yellowish-ferruginous mixed with black. Nape i»alc 

 rufous. A conspicuous, large, whitish spot below and behind the nostril, 

 bordered by yellowish-brown, which latter color extends over the sides of 

 the head, where it is varied with black. Chin and space over the rami of 

 the lower jaw white. Fore neck pale yellowish-brown; rest of lower parts 

 white. Ears anteriorly varied with pale rufous and black, with a narrow 

 whitish border; ears nearly naked posteriorly. Limbs strongly rufous 

 externally, inside much paler and more or less varied with white. Tail 

 like the back above, yellowish- brown below. 



The most striking peculiarity of athis form is the shortness of the cars, 

 which are much shorter than in any other species of Lepus with which I am 

 acquainted. In sizcy- it seems to be, fully as small as L. trowhridgei. The 

 specimens are all more or less mutilated, so that the character of the tail 

 cannot be well determined. The Lepus brasUiensis of von Frantzius, from 

 Costa Rica, doubtless refers to this variety. 



Table XLVI.— Jtf«aMtre«i«ii(f (/ Lbpus biusiuembib ((iioiiMHi>; var. oabbu). 



8IW 

 II9TI 



Locality. 



BoIItU 



P»»» 



Vsnneto, Pkngniy 



Cbtriqal, Central Amerlw . 

 Ttluunm, Cott* Klo* 



Frodj tip or uose to— 



1.30 

 LW 



ftSO 

 AM 

 *.30 



*.ea 





13.00 

 1&00 



Leugtb iif~ 



1.30 

 l.3J 



a. 00 

 3.00 

 «.-7J 

 9.00 

 a. 89 



1.00 



a. 00 



3.03 

 1.03 

 1.43 



Kuniarkt. 



From Wfttorhouso. 

 do. 



