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black, iris fine clear yellow; legs and toes clear yellow, with black 
claws. 
Left Peking on the 7th of October, and reached Chefoo by steamer 
on the 12th, where I spent a day or two. While out for a walk, 
put up a Chefoo Hare. This Hare is sent by the European resi- 
dents at Chefoo to their friends in the south, and is a great treat 
when compared with the small species Lepus sinensis (Gray), which 
is the ordinary Chinese animal. It is, when cooked, as fully fla- 
voured as the English Hare, and in general appearance greatly re- 
sembles it, but is smaller and varies in the colour of its fur from 
the brightness of Lepus timidus (L.) to a ruddy cream-colour. I 
have several specimens of its skin and skull, and I cannot distin- 
guish it from Lepus tolai, Pall. .Pére David procured it in the 
neighbourhood of Peking, where I found the smaller and harsher- 
haired ZL. sinensis the prevailing species ; and he also reports it 
common in Mongolia. My brightest specimen ( 9 ) has the head pale 
rufous-brown, deeper on the forehead and crown, and somewhat yel- 
lower on the outer surface of the ears, all mottled with black, 
the black appearing in an irregular streak or two on the cheeks ; 
the upper lips, chin, throat, and circle round the eye produced 
backwards in the form of a half eye-brow, are creamy white; mous- 
tache-bristles white, some of them brown near their bases; inner 
surface of ear rufous cream-colour ; back of ear pale fawn-colour, 
with a broad brownish-black tip ; on the hind neck behind the ears 
an unmottled light rufous patch occurs ; back yellowish rufous, with 
most of the hairs broadly tipped with black ; these hairs are dark 
brown towards their bases, with thick brownish-white down; rump and 
sides of thighs unmottled creamy rufous ; tail black on upper surface ; 
beneath white, as are all the underparts to the fore legs. | Under 
neck, chest, sides of body and legs yellowish rufous, the fore legs with 
a creamy patch above the paws, and the inner surface of hind legs and 
feet creamy white. Long hairs are scattered over the upper parts. 







Length from muzzle to root of tail... ............ 19 
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— of fore leg from shoulder .............. 6°75 
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—of skull ..... ES rues see egy OTE 
Width of skull (arch to arch) Sites ok Reis Se aes 1°63 
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Length of incisive opens eS EACH SO, “88 
Width of ditto behind . Sprerices: 
Length of the six upper "molar teeth together Lee (Ranges 
A second specimen ( 3) is lighter and more cream-coloured, with 
