364 



MONOGRArnS OF NOUTU AMERICAN RODENTIA. 



Table LVII.— U<( of iptcitiutu of Lkpub palustkh. 



: M 



* BpecimeDi ftom the Ifaieum of Coroparatlve Zoology, Oambridgc, Hat*. 



LEPUS AQUATICUS Bachman. 



Wster Hare, i ■ , i ' ■ « ■ ,. 



ZepiM agMlieiM BACnMAN, Joarn. Acad. Nnt. Soi. Fhila., vii, 1837,310,pl.xzii,eg.9; viii,1839,78.— Watbr- 

 IIOU8K, Nat. Hist. Ham., il, 1848, 113.— AvD. & Bacu., Qaad. N. Am., i, 1841), 387, pi. xxxvii.— 

 Baikd, Mam. N. Am., 1857, 613, pi. lix, fig. 1 (sknll).— Allkn, Proo. Boat Soo. Nbt. Hist, xtU, 

 1875, 435.— LiNCKcuM, Am. Mat. vi, 1872, 771 (diatribation and babita). 



.Hydrolfu^t a^naNciu Orat, Ann. & Hag. Mat. Hiat., 3d ser., XX, 1H67, 331. 



Ltigv* dougUuri var. 1, Oray, Cbarlwwortb's Hag. Nat. Hist., i, 1637, 580. '" 



t " L^tu caniciiIiM Licut.," Wateruousb, Nat. Hist. Ham., li, 1848, 133. 



As large as Lepm americanus ; in coloration, much like L. sylvalicus. 

 Above, yellowish-brown, finely but conspicuously mixed with black ; paler 

 and with less bluck on the sides. Below, pure white, with the fore neck and 

 breast dusky yellowish-brown. 'J'aii conspicuously pure white below, daik 



