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(including chin), lower neck, nape, forebreast to forelegs, lower sides, 

 edges of thighs and rump, dark plumbeous gray, flecked with very 

 long, slender, white hairs. Lower breast, belly, vent ami tail white, 

 bordered by a nearly clear plumbeous edging which separates the ven- 

 tral from the abdominal regions and joins the dark rump along the 

 inside of thighs. Inner anterior border of hams, sides of hind feet and 

 toes, and lower surfaces of forelegs, white, thinly intermixed with leaden 

 hairs. Outer surfaces of fore and hind legs and superior surfaces of 

 the feet, tawny gray. Ears and space between them, black, becoming 

 grayish at base and with a narrow whitish outer posterior margin from 

 near base to tip. Upper head, including cheeks and nose, grizzled 

 buffy gray, appreciably lighter than the gray shades of the back. 

 Eyelids whitish, edged with black. Whiskers weak and sparse, white 

 and black in equal proportions, the longer black hairs tipped with 

 white. 



Winter pelage (No. 1187, Ad. 9 , Col. of E. A. & O. Bangs. Bay 

 St. George, Newfoundland, Mar. 1, 1895) : Entire pelage, exclusive of 

 ears, white. Extreme tips of ears black, the median anterior borders 

 of ears grayish. 



Measurements (of type). — Total length, 626 millimeters ; tail verte- 

 brae, 63 ; hind foot, 160 ; ear (from crown), 85. Skull : total length, 

 97 ; basilar length, 76 ; greatest breadth, 48.2 ; anterior frontal con- 

 striction, 23 ; length of i; ; >, 40 ; greatest breadth 

 of nasals, 22 ; alveolar breadth of upper incisors, 9 ; greatest length of 

 mandible, 76 ; greatest width of mandible, 47. 



The above measurements both of body and skull are a very fair aver- 

 age of the dimensions of five adults taken for Mr. Bangs in Newfound- 

 land by the same collector, Mr. Ernest Doane. Summer specimens 

 from northern Labrador are inseparable from those taken in the same 

 month in Newfoundland. A summer series from Great Slave Lake 

 may show the existence of another race of ardicus in that region. 

 Lepus grcenlandicus sp. nov. Greenland Polar Hare. 



Tpye, No. 1486 ad. S . Col. of Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia. 

 Collected by Chas. E. Hite at Robinson's Bay, North Greenland, Aug. 

 2, 1892, for the Peary Relief Expedition. 



Description. — Size larger than L. timidus L. of Sweden, with radi- 

 cally distinct coloration and incisor dentition. 



Adult summer pelage, white, suffused with light tawny and sparingly 

 sprinkled with gray on upper head and ears. Back with scattering 

 black and gray hairs. Tip of ears black. Tail, sides and lower sur- 



