288 Notice of the Mammals of Thibet. [No. 124. 



Lagomys Nipalensis, again, they allege to be the ordinary field rat of that 

 strange land, Sed qucere ? Rhizomys is too tropical a form for Tibet. 



44. Genus Lepus, L. O'iostolus. Common in Tibet near the Hema- 

 chal, and expressly pointed out by Moorcroft (I. 225) : but not so com- 

 mon in the central and eastern provinces of Utsang and Kham, as the 

 next and much larger species. 



45. L. Pallipes, White-foot, new, Mihi. Essential structure perfect- 

 ly typical : particular conformation approximated to that of Hibernicus 

 and Variabilis : fur very soft and full, as full as, and much softer than, 

 the English hare, and of two sorts, the inner rather more abundant and 

 wavy, the outer, not much longer, straight, and possessed of an uni- 

 form structure with very little rigidity, or rather with a slight elasticity 

 and no rigidity. Size of Variabilis, but with ears equal to the head. 

 General colour the ordinary hue of the English species, but paler, 

 with less of red and still less of black in it, and the pads yet more com- 

 pletely enveloped in their socks : Groove of the front teeth very deep : 

 whiskers medial, black or white. Body above, except the buttocks, with 

 the whole toes and a list down the fronts of the limbs, pale rusty yellow 

 or ruddy luteous, very moderately sprinkled with black. Ears outside 

 towards the back on the distad opposed halves, with the nape, the 

 buttocks and the limbs, bluish hoary, white almost on the ears and limbs ; 

 body below rufescent hoary ; rufous on the chest and white under the 

 chin. Ears largely tipt with black (for half an inch) : Tail white. Inner 

 fleece inannulate and bluish hoary. Outer piles triannulate with two 

 black rings and one intervening pale rufous zone, none of these latter 

 wholly black, nor longer nor harsher than the rest. Snout to rump 22 to 

 23 inches, head 4f , ears 4f : Oscalcis to longest toe, \\ : Scut without 

 the terminal hair, 4 inches, with it, 6. 



Remark. Possess two skins from Lassa and one from Sikim, which 

 however came, no doubt, from beyond the snows originally. I am in- 

 debted for it to Dr. Campbell's kindness. The species is that common to 

 all central and eastern Tibet, (Utsang and Kham) : but in the higher and 

 more mountainous sites of Western Tibet, or Naree, and also in Ladakh, 

 Oiostolus is the more prevalent species. Macrotus, or the Indian type, 

 (up to the Himalaya) never crosses the snows, nor is known in Tibet.* 



* The Lepus tolai of Pallas, " an inhabitant of open hilly places in Dauria and 

 Mongolia, and said to extend as far as Tibet," should be enquired for by Mr. Hodgson. 

 A description is given in Shaw's Zoology, II. 203.— Cur. As. Soc. 



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