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360 



MONOOKAriia OF NOUTII AMERICAN llODENTIA. 



Taulk LIV.— £(<( oj qMcimnM of Lkpus CALiFoiuiicrs. 



li 1 % 



LEPUS PALUSTRIS Bachman. * 



Marsh Hare. 



Lepui paUttrU Bachman, Jonrn. Acad. Nut. Sci. Pbila., vil, 1837, 194, 330, pl». xv, x\l ; viii, 1839, 79.— 

 AvDUBUN, Birds of America, iv, 510, pi. ocolzxii.— Wateriiou8B, Nat. Hiat. Ham., ii, 1848, 

 119.— Aui>. & Bach., Qnad. N. Am., i, 1649, 151, pi. xviii.— Baihd, Mam. N. Am., 1857, 615, 

 pi. lix, fig. 3 (8kiin).-CouK8, Proo. Boat. Boo. Nnt. Hiat, ziii, 1808, 80.- Allen, Ball. Mui. 

 Comp. Zotil., ii, 1871, 184; Proc. Boat. Soo. Nat. Hist., xvii, 1875, 436. 



nyirolagut paluttrit Gray, Aun. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3<I ser., xx, 1807, 331. 



£«piM d»u0{a««i var. 3, Gray, Cliarlesirotth's Mag. Nat. Hist., i, 1837, 580, 



About the size of, or slightly larger than, the eastern form of L. sylvali- 

 cus, and of somewhat similar general proportions, but with much shorter 

 tail, and broader, heavier incisors and molars, and much larger and stouter 

 lower jaw; ears broader and more rounded; feet very sparsely furred, the 



