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LEPUS GLACIALIS^Leach. 



Polar Hake. 



PLATE XXXII, — Male. In summer pelage. Natural size. 



L. aestate dilute cinereus, hyeme niveus, pilis apice ad radicem albis ; 

 aurium apicibus nigris ; vulpes magnitudine. 



CHARACTERS. 



As large as a fox; colour, f« summer, light gray above; in winter, white, 

 the hairs at that season being white from the roots. Tips of ears, black. 



STNONYMES. 



White Harks, Discoveries and Settlements of the English in America, from the reign of 

 Henry 11. to the close of that of Queen Elizabeth, quoted from Pinkerton's Voyages, 

 vol. xii., p. 276. 

 Alpine Hare, Philosophical Transactions, London, vol. Ixvi., p. 375, An. 1777. 

 Lepus Timidus, Fabri., Fauna Grcenlandica, p. 25. 

 Varying Hare, Pennant, Arc. Zool., vol. i., p. 94. 

 Whiti Hare, Heame's Journey, p. 3S2. 



" " Cartwright's Journal, vol. ii., p. 75. 



Lepus Glacialis, Leach, Zool. Miscellany, 1814. 



" " Ross's Voyage. 



" " Captain Sabine's Snppl. Parry's 1st Voyage, p. 188. 



" " Franklin's Journal, p. 664. 



" " Richardson, Appendix to Parry's 2d Voyage, p. 321. 



Polar Hare, Harlan, Fauna, p. 194. 



" " Godman, Nat. Hist., vol. ii., p. 162. 



Lefus Glacialis, Richardson, Fauna Boreali Americana, p. 221. 



" " Bacbman, Acad. Nat. Sciences, Phila., vol. vii., part 2. 



DESCRIPTION. 



This fine species is considerably larger than the English hare, {L. timi- 

 dus) Head, larger and longer than that of the European hare ; fore- 

 head, more arched ; body, long ; nose, blunt ; eyes, large ; ears, long ; 

 whiskers, composed of a few stiff long hairs ; legs, long ; soles of feet, 

 broad, thickly covered with hair concealing the nails, which are long. 



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