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CONTENTS OF PART XL 



RODENTIA (Rodents)— 



Leporida (Hares and Rabbits)— 



Genus Oryctolagus — 



The Rabbit or Cony ... 



Genus Lepus ...... 



Group Eulagos ...... 249 



The Common or Brown Hare .... 250 



The English local names have been revised in part by Mr IV. W. 

 Skeat, M.A. {assisted by Professor W. IV. Skeat), and in part by 

 Mr C. M. Drennan, M.A. Land., late Scholar Emm. Coll. Camb. ; 

 the Celtic and Gaelic names by Dr E. S. Quiggin, M.A., Ph.D., 

 Fellow and Lecturer in Modern Languages and Celtic of Gonville 

 and Caius College, Cambridge ; while a list of Scottish Gaelic 

 names have been supplied by Mr C. H. Alston. Valuable 

 assistance has been rendered by Mr M. A. C. Hinton regarding 

 extinct Mammals. 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



Full-page {Black and White). 



Scottish Blue Hare. 



Head of British Brown Hare {Lepus europceus occidentalis). Female. 



Spoor of Irish Hare: (i) left fore; (2) right fore; (3) right hind ; (4) 

 right hind, sinking deeper in softer mud. (Natural size.) 



Head of Irish Hare {Lepus hibernicus), Male. 



Figures in Text. 



Spoor of Rabbit in Snow. {From a Sketch by L. E. Adams?) 



Skulls of: (i) Lepus europceus ; (2) L. timidus scoticus ; (3) Oryctolagus 

 cuniculus. (All life size.) 



Skulls of: (i) Lepus europceus ; (2) Oryctolagus cuniculus ; and (3) 

 Palate of Lepus timidus scoticus (all viewed from beneath, and \\ 

 times natural size). (4) Mandible of Lepus. 



Cheek-Teeth oi Lepus, diagrammatic and magnified. 



Side view of Skull of Lepus europceus. (Life size.) 



