1900.] 



THE TABIAULE FARE. 



91 



Chuckchee Hare would appear to be different from the Hare 

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

 from Kamchatka, in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 show beyond question that the small timiclus 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 Biver northward (Iihoads). 



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

 proportions of the various forms : — 



Head 



and Tail, 



body. 



Lepus timiclus typicus. 



Scandinavian. 



So. 51.11.10.70. "Norway" 



No. 44.8.3.4L " Lepus canescens" 



No. 44.8.5.35. 



tf, 19 Sept., 1899, Eidwold, Norway 

 (E. Collett) ., 



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



Scotch. 



Dimensions of 14 examples, from ^ 

 Cronilix, Dunblane, Pertbsh. | 

 (Captain A. Hay Drmnmond) ; | 

 Cawdor, Nairn (Earl of Caw- 

 dor); Drynaehan Lodge, Clonas 

 (W.R. Ogilvie Grant) ; Altyr, 

 Morayshire (Sir W. Gordon 

 Gumming); and Cairn Edward, 

 >.ew Galloway (Colonel Gor- 

 don Maitlandj 2 J 



Lepus timiclus hiberuicus. 



(5 . Barrett-Hamilton collection no. 257, 

 Mull, Scotland (introduced) (C. H. 

 Akroyd), 23rd Nov. 1895 ; weight j' 

 6 lbs. 9 oz J 



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



2 , ditto no. 256, Vaynol Park, N. Wales ") 

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

 received 5th March, 1896 ; weight i 

 5 lbs. 11 oz ) 



5 , 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 I 

 introduced) J 



Average of twelve ditto 



Maximum skull measurement 



Hind- 

 foot. 



543 

 522 

 501 



517 



58 



40 



Ear. 



Skull 

 (basilar 

 length). 



loo 

 775 



73 



about 73 * 

 67 

 * Damaged. 



i max. 



510 



67 



146 



77-5 



73-5 



)■ mean 



495 



59-5 



136 



725 



70 



mm. 



470 



50 



126 



67 



67 



136 



76 





132 



71 





142 



79 





139 



76 



71-5 



136 



75 



73 



78-5 



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



- [The skull of No. 78.12.21.20, <$, Samarowa, on the River Irtysch, Siberia, received 

 from the Gpogr. 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. 



