CONTENTS OF PART XII. 



RODENTIA (Rodents)— 



Leporidce (Hares and Rabbits) — 

 Genus Lepus — 

 Group Eulagos — 



PAGB 



The Common or Brown Hare . . 265 



Group Lepus ..... . 292 



The Mountain or Blue Hare .... 307 



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

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

 Mr C. M. Drennan, M.A. Lond., 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 (^Coloured and Black and White). 

 Mountain Hare, Stoat, and Weasel in Winter Pelage. 



Feet of British Leporidce: (i) Oryctolagus cuniculus, left fore foot, 

 anterior view; (2) Ditto, posterior view; (3) Lepus turopceus 

 occidentalis, left fore foot, posterior view; (4) Ditto, anterior 

 view ; (5), (6), (7), (8) Left hind feet of L. hibernicus, L. europcBus 

 occidentalis, O. cuniculus, L. timidus scoticus, respectively. 



Hind Feet (Left) of British Leporidce: (i) and (5) Lepus hibernicus ; 

 (2) and (6) Oryctolagus cuniculus; (3) and (7) L. europczus 

 occidentalis ; (4) and (8) L. timidus scoticus. 



