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REMARKS ON THE GENUS LEPUS. 
1. Lepus glacialis, (Leach,) Polar Hare. 
Lepus glacialis, Leach, Ross’ Voyage. L. glacialis, 
Supplement to Captain Sabine. L. glacialis, Parry’s First 
Voyage, p. 1S8. L. glacialis, Franklin’s Journal, p. 662. 
L. glacialis, Parry’s Second Voyage, p. 321 ; Harlan’s 
Fauna, p. 194. L. glacialis, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., Vol. 
VII., p. 285. Plate, in summer colors, 21. 
2. Lepus americanus, (Erxlebein.) Northern Hare. 
Lepus americanus, Erxlebein’s Systema Regni Animalis, 
p. 330: A. D. 1777. American Hare, London Philosophical 
Transactions, Vol. LXII.,pp. 11 and 376. Lepus hudsoni- 
us, Pallas glires, pp. 1 and 30. Lepus virginianus, Har- 
lan s Fauna, p. 196: A. D., 1825. Lepus virginianus, 
Naturalist’s Miscellany, Doughty’s figure in autumn pelage, 
Vol. I., p. 217, plate 19. Audubon’s Birds of America, 
Vol. II., plate 181, winter dress: in the talons of Falco 
chrysaelos. 
Since my last article on the hares was published, 
I have had an opportunity of consulting the work 
of Erxlebein, which has satisfied me with regard to 
his description of this species. He describes it 
very correctly as “ magnitudine medius, inter L. 
cuniculum, et timidum alpinum Our gray rabbit, 
instead of being intermediate between the L. cuni- 
culus, the common domesticated rabbit of Europe, 
and the Alpine hare, is smaller than either. “ Pedes 
postici longiores quam in L. timido et cuniculo.” 
These long hind feet are distinctive marks of the 
northern hare, but those of our gray rabbit are 
much shorter than those of the L. timido, or com- 
mon hare of Europe. “Hieme in frigidioribus 
