REMARKS on the genus lepus. 
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Additional Remarks on the Genus Lepus , with cor- 
rections of a former paper , and descriptions of 
other species of Quadrupeds found in North Ame- 
rica. By John Bachman. 
In a note contained in the last volume of the 
ransactions of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 
(page 403,) I stated that “ I was induced to think 
that I had been led into an error in the synonyms 
°f two of the species of Lepus. I had followed too 
confidingly the works of Desmarest, Cuvier, and 
ose of American naturalists who copied their er- 
rors, m referring our common gray rabbit to Lepus 
amencanus , and had no opportunity of consulting 
the work of Erxlebein, the original describer of that 
species, before the article was in print. I, however 
teit pretty confident, from the original account given 
V ^ northern hare in the 62d volume of the'lmn- 
°n Philosophical. Transactions, that it would prove 
o be the Lepus americanus of Erxlebein, and 
identical with the species which was afterwards 
published as Lepus virginianus, and I consequent- 
ly inserted a note to that effect Having since en- 
joyed ample opportunities of satisfying myself that 
my conjectures were right, I find it necessary to 
correct some of the synonyms in that article, and at 
f 6 same tlme to add such information on the dif- 
abfeto con C ect. 0f ^ aS 1 W since been 
