1900.] 



THE VARIABLE HARE. 



91 



Chuckchee Hare would appear to be different from the Hare 

 of that country, for Mr. S. N. Bhoads states 1 that " four skulls 

 from Kamchatka, in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 show beyond question that the small timidus type of Polar Hare 

 inhabiting that region is very different from the Hare which 

 frequents the Plover Bay Territory." 



Distribution. North-eastern Siberia, and North-western Alaska, 

 from the mouth of the Kuskoquim Eiver northward (Iihoads). 



Hind- 

 foot. 



max. 

 mean 

 min. 



Scotch. 



Dimensions of 14 examples, from ^ 

 Croinlix, Dunblane, Pertbsh. I 

 (Captain A. Hay Drummond) ; 

 Cawdor, Nairn (Earl of Caw- j 

 dorV, Drynaehan Lodge, Clonas | 

 (W.R. Ogilvie Grant) ; Altyr, 

 Morayshire (Sir W. Gordon 

 Gumming); and Cairn Edward, 

 IV ew Galloway (Colonel Gor- 

 don Maitland) 2 , 



Lepus timidus hibernicus. 



cJ . Barrett-Hamilton collection no. 257, 

 Mull, Scotland (introduced) (C. H. 

 .Akroyd), 23rd Nov. 1895; weight 

 6 lbs. 9 oz 



9 , ditto no. 258 ; weight 5 lbs. 8 oz 



5 , ditto no. 256, Vaynol Park, N. Wales 

 (introduced) (G. W. Assheton Smith), 

 received 5th March, 1896 ; weight 

 5 lbs. 11 oz ... 



2 , Kilmanock, Co. Wexford, Ireland, 

 7th Dec, 1899 (G. E. H. Barrett- 

 Hamilton) 



Average of 7 Irish, Scotch, and Welsh 

 individuals (in the two latter cases 

 introduced) 



Average of twelve d itto 



Maximum skull measurement 



510 

 495 

 470 



67 



595 



50 



146 

 136 

 126 



543 

 522 

 501 



517 



58 



40 



139 



136 



Ear. 



The following table will give some idea of the relative size and 

 proportions of the various forms : — 



Lepus timidus typicus. , m •■, 



Scandinavian. body. 



So. 51.11.10.70. "Norway" 



No: 44.8.3.41. " Lepus canescens " 



No. 44.8.5.35. „ „ 



tf, 19 Sept., 1899, Eidwold, Norway 



(R. Collet t) 



cJ, 30 Oct., 1899, do. (do.) 



Skull 

 (basilar 

 length). 



755 

 77 5 

 73 



. about 73 * 

 67 

 * Damaged. 



77-5 

 72 5 

 67 



73-5 s 



70 



67 



76 



75 



ri-5 



73 



78-5 



i Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. 1896, p. 372. 



2 [The skull of No. 78.12.21.20, d\ Samarowa, on the River Irtysch, Siberia, received 

 from the Geogr. Soc. Bremen, and collected by Dr. O. Finsch in 1876, is damaged, but 

 appears to be of the same size as those of Scotch specimens.] 



* The dimensions of the skulls are taken from 19 specimens. 



