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mediate, measuiing only 7^ cm., and the hind foot was 16 cm. 

 In its general colour it resembles L. ti7nichis (bluish-grey variety) 

 more than the specimen described above, but there is, on the other 

 hand, a very conspicuous inheritance from L, europceus. The back 

 has a rusty- brown colour modified by whitish and yellowish hair- 

 tips, but below these tips the hairs are not so dark as in L, euro- 

 2)cettSj and may be described as dirty umber-brown. On the sides 

 of the breast the broad white or whitish-ashy tips dominate, and 

 below them the hairs are rusty brown, and the under-fur is light 

 rusty yellowish-gi'ey. The chest is covered by veiy long white 

 tips to the hairs, but below these the fur is pale rusty yellow, a 

 certain inheritance from L. europceus. On the neck and round 

 the ears the rusty colour is less concealed as the wdiite tips are 

 shorter. The flanks and hind-quarters are mostly bluish ash, 

 pei-haps with a rusty hue on the flanks. The same colour extends 

 on the lower back about 12 cm. from the tail. The feet are 

 coloured as in the foregoing hybiid specimen, but the tail is less 

 grey above, although more so than in L. thnidus. Still more 

 like L. timidus was another hybrid presented by Count C. 0. 

 Beck-Friis, and shot at Borringe, in Scania, at the end of 

 January 1905. The greater part of the body of this Hare is 

 bluish ashy, but a large patch 18 cm. in length and 7 cm. in 

 breadth on the back behind the shoulders is sandy brown. This 

 colour is produced by a mixing of rusty yellow, white, and brown 

 tips to the hairs, but below these tips the hairs are almost as dark 

 brown as in L. europceus, from which it undoubtedly is an inheri- 

 tance. Towards the periphery at the patch mentioned this colour 

 becomes paler. The under-fur has a more or less rusty tinge all 

 over the back. The hairs of the neck are rusty with white or 

 ashy tips, and the hairs of the chest and lower neck are pale rusty 

 yellow with long white tips to the hairs ; but here, as well, the 

 inheritance from L. europceus is quite conspicuous. ISTose and fore- 

 head rusty ; sides of the nose and the head and a broad streak 

 behind the eye white, a patch below and behind the eye ashy 

 grey. Ears rusty brown on the anterior side, black-tipped, and 

 white behind ; inside of the ear-conchs coloured as in L. europceus. 

 Their length may be termed intermediate, as it measures 12*7 cm. 

 The hind feet are also intermediate in length, measuring 15*8 cm. 

 The skull resembles most neai-ly L. timidus with regard to the 

 shape and dimensions of the nasals and the zygomatic arch. 

 There are three enamel-folds on the first premolar of the maxillary, 

 but the third is not much developed and it resembles therefore 

 the same in L. europceus*. 



* rSiuce this paper was read I have had the opportunity of seeing another 

 specimen of hybrid Hare which had been shot near Gothenburg. The " German 

 Hares " introduced there had been obtained from Frankfurt-am-Main, where Lepus 

 europceus assumes a more pronounced winter garb extending over the flanks and 

 haunches. The Variable Hare has also in the neighbourhood of Gothenburg a 

 lighter winter coat than in Scania, and is often quite white, consequently the 

 hybrid Hare from Gothenburg was much lighter than the hybrids from Scania. 

 It was almost white with a large brownish saddle-patch. The characteristic rusty 



