214 W. T. Blanford — Description of a new species of Hare. [No. 3, 



XXI. — Note on a large Hare inhabiting high elevations in Western, 

 Tibet.— By W. T. Blanpoed, F. B. 8. 

 (Received. Nov. 8;— Read Deer. 1, 1875.) 

 In the list of mammals obtained by Dr. Stoliczka in Ladak, Eastern 

 Turkestan, &c. (ante, p. 109), I included a hare from Ladak under the name 

 of L. pallipes, but as I felt doubtful of the identification I added a note of 

 interrogation to the name. I have since, in a collection of skins very kindly 

 sent to me for examination by Mr. Mandelli of Darjiling, found one young 

 and two adult specimens of a hare with an ashy grey rump, corresponding 

 very much better with the figure and description of L. pallipes given by 

 Hodgson (J. A. S. B., 1842, XI, p. 288, PI. 3). This hare is doubtless the 

 kind inhabiting the portions of Tibet immediately north of Sikkim, and 

 seen by myself in Sikkim close to the frontier at the Kongra Lama pass 

 (J. A. S. B., 1872, XLI, p. 34). It differs in several respects from the 

 large hare of Ladak and Western Tibet, referred first, I believe, by Blyth in 

 his ' Catalogue of the Mammals in the Museum of the Asiatic Society,' p. 131, 

 and subsequently by myself to L. pallipes. The hare from Western Tibet 

 is a larger form with proportionally shorter and differently coloured ears, 

 the fur is less woolly, the colouration more rufous on the back, and less 

 ashy on the rump, the dark band on the anterior surface of the ears is much 

 less distinct and the posterior outer surface shews far less white, and the 

 tarsi are clad with longer and denser hair. I propose to name this Western 

 Tibetan hare, from the extremely elevated regions which it inhabits, 



Lepus hypsibius, sp. nov. 



L. major, rufescens, nigro-adumbratus, subtus albus, uropygio fusees- 

 centi-griseo, cauddfloccosd, omnino alba, vellere dorsali densissimo subcrispa- 

 to, auribus brevimculis, capitem longitudine parum excedentibus, antice 

 extus fusco rufescentibus, postice albescentibus vel albis. Long, corporis 

 cum capite in corio dessicato ad 24 poll., tarsi 5, auris a capite 4.5, cranii 

 3.6. 



Hab. — In vallibus altissimis planitiebusque provincice occidentalis Ti- 

 tetance Ladak dictce. 



Description taken from a specimen collected by Dr. Stoliczka at Kium 

 in the Changchenmo valley, 15,500 feet above the sea, in October. Colour 

 rufous brown more or less mixed with black on the back, dusky ashy on the 

 rump, lower parts white with a slight rufescent tinge. Fur long, woolly 

 rather curly and thick ; on the anterior portion of the body the hairs are about 

 \\ inches long, ashy at the base, further back the basal portion becomes creamy 

 white, beyond the middle of each hair there is a blackish ring, then a pale 

 brown one, the extremity being black. Towards the rump, the hairs are 



