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THE MOUNTAIN OR BLUE HARE. 



LEPUS T/MIDUS, Linn^us. 

 LEPUS TIMIDUS SCOTICUS (Hilzheimer). 



1758. Lep.US TIMIDUS (species), Carolus Linnaeus, Systema Natura, x., 57 (part) ; 

 xii., 77, 1766; described from Upsala, Sweden; Lydekker ; Thomas, Zoologist, 

 1898, loi ; Johnston ; Millais. 



1778. Lepus variabilis (species), P. S. Pallas, Nova Species Quadrupedum Glirium 

 Ordine, 2 (part) ; renaming L. timidus of Linnaeus ; Berkenhout ; Turton ; anon., 

 British Cyclopedia, lo^, 1836; Bingley; Fleming; MacGillivray ; Clermont. 



1770. Alpine Hare, Thomas Pennant, British Zoology, iv., 40, pi. 47 (habits and 

 occurrence in Scotland described); Synopsis Quadrupedum, 1771, 250; Tour in 

 Scotiand in 1769, 1772, ed. Pinkerton, 96; Lightfoot's Flora Scotica, 1777, 11, 

 No. 21. 



1772. White Hare, Thomas Pennant, Tour in Scotiand in 1769, ed. Pinkerton, 96. 



1781. Varying Hare, Thomas Pennant, History of Quadrupeds, 370 ; a footnote in 

 Index, xvii., explains the changed name from Alpine Hare of the Synopsis 

 Quadrupedum. 



1808. Lepus timidus, . . . /S. L. alpinus, corpore cinereo-albo, auriculis apice 

 nigris. The Alpine Hare. Scot. The White Hare. Intolerandi rigoris alumnum. 

 Plin. John Walker, Essays on Natural History, xiii., 491 and 493 (probably written 

 between 1764 and 1774); described from Scotland — "Locus-Habitat versus cacumina 

 montium Scotiae altissimorum, locis scopulosis. Monte Cruachan dicto in Arga- 

 thelia, Ben Nevish in Abria, et praesertim montibus in Rossia occidentali, ubi 

 frequentissimus est " ; preoccupied by Lepus timidus alpinus, Erxleben, Systema 

 Regni Animalis, \., 328, 1777, a synonym of Z. timidus, Linnseus, and by L. alpinus, 

 Pallas, NovcB Species Quadrupedum Glirium, 1773, an OCHOTONA. 



1816. Lepus ALBUS, W. E. Leach, Systematic Catalogue of the Specimens of the 

 Indigenous Mammalia and Birds that are preserved in the British Museum, 7 ; 

 adopting Brisson's Lepus albus, named, but without description, from Scotland, 

 hence a nomen nudum, but in any case preoccupied (see below). 



1819. Lepus albus, W. E. Leach in Sir John Ross's Voyage of Discovery, ed. i., 



app. ii., pp. xlv-xlvi ; ed. ii., vol. ii., app. iv., 15 and 170, the last reprinted in Ann. 



of Phil., September 1819, xiv., 201, from Brisson ; described from Scotland; 



preoccupied by Lepus timidus albus, J. M. Bechstein, Gemeinnutzige Naturgeschichte 



Deutschlands, etc., 1801, i., ed. ii., 1096, described from Thuringia, Germany ; 



Jenyns. 

 1857. Lepus variabilis, b. Form der Mittelregion und der Alpen, J. H. Blasius, 



Sdugethiere Deutschlands, 424 (part). 

 1900. Lepus timidus typicus, G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



(London), 6th February 1900, 88 (part) ; Millais. 

 1906. Lepus medius scoticus. Max Hilzheimer, Zool. Anzeiger, xxx., 511, 14th 



August 1906 ; Trouessart (1910) ; described from Scotland. 

 1909. Lepus variabilis scoticus, M. A. C. Hinton, Sci. Proc. R. Dublin Soc, xii. 



(N.S.), No. 23, 8th September 1909, 231, etc. 



