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as the skull-characters clearly prove it to belong to the subgenus 
Phaiomys, and its colour is quite unlike any of the other species 
of that group. 
Lepus orostotus Hodgs. 
Lepus otostolus Hodgson, J. A.8. B. ix. p. 1186 (1840) ; Blan- 
ford, Faun. Br. Ind., Mamm. p- 452 (1891). 
a. WKhamba Jong, Oct. 1903. 
Apparently the common Hare of Tibet, two more skins having 
been brought home by Col. Waddell. Capt. Walton states that 
this hare, which, as a rule, avoids cultivated land and frequents 
bare and rocky hillsides, was very common at Khamba Jong and 
also at Tuna at the hand of the Chumbi Valley. It was, however, 
much scarcer, although still occurring, between Gyangtse and 
Lhasa. 
OcHOTONA CURZONLE (Hodgs.). 
Lagomys curzonie Hodgs. (nec Stoliczka) J.A.S. B. xxvi. 
p- 207 (1858) ; Blanford, Faun. Br. Ind., Mamm. p. ABT (1891); 
es P.Z.S. 1904, vol. 1. p. 214. 
a 2. Yamdok Lake, 14,800’, 29th Sept., 1904. 
b,c. No particulars 
d. Ad. imspuit. Tuna. 
The specimen from the Yamdok Lake had evidently just 
assumed its new winter pelage, the other two skins being in old 
and worn fur. Tuna, where the spirit-specimen was pr ocured, is 
only a few miles north of the Chumbi Valley, the type locality of 
the species. 
Capt. Walton writes of this species :—“ They are exceedingly 
common at Khamba Jong, Tuna, and in all the open bare country 
from Tuna to Gyangtse, as well as between Gyangtse and Lhasa. 
They, however, become less common as one approaches Lhasa, 
probably because the country is more cultivated. They ayer 
cultivated fields for the most part, and were always commonest in 
bare sandy country. They do not hibernate at ‘all, and on any 
sunny day i in the middle of winter they might be seen sunning 
themselves at the entrance to their burrows. I dug up a few 
burrows during the winter. The tunnel runs more or less 
vertically downwards for 1 or 2 feet and then somewhat hori- 
zontally for 4 to 6 feet. The passage is dilated at irregular 
intervals in some two or three places. At these spots and at 
the end of the burrow, which is also dilated, there is a certain 
amount of coarse grass collected to form a kind of nest. The 
ground in many places i is honeycombed with these burrows, which 
sometimes communicate with one another close to the OUthe but 
as a rule they are quite distinct. I never heard the animal utter 
a ery of any sort.” 
