REMARKS on the genus lepus. 79 
my account of this species was published— one of 
1 1S de P 0S i te d i n the collections of the Academy 
oi Natural Sciences of Philadelphia,— I have ascer- 
tained that the adult of this species is considerably 
larger than I represented it, being intermediate in 
size between the northern and polar hares. 
5. Lepus palustris , (nob.) Marsh Hare. 
Lepus palustris. Read before the Acad. Nat. Sci of 
Philadelphia, May 10th, 1836. Transactions Society, Vol. 
II., pp. 194 and 336. Lepus Douglassi, (Gray.) Read 
before the Zoological Society of London, November, 1837. 
i f US Palustris, figured in Audubon’s fourth volume of 
plates of the Birds of America. 
To this species I have no farther information to 
add, than that it has since been found to exist plen- 
tifully m Texas, where it was found by Audubon 
and where the specimen described by Mr. Gray, of 
l^ie British Museum, was also procured by Doug- 
6. Lepus Nuttallii, (nob.) Nuttall’s Little Hare. 
Lepus Nuttallii, Journal Acad. Nat. Sci., p. 345, pi. 22. 
fV T i° “ mati0n alread y given on this species, 
i i ^° Urn ' jA ' cad ' Nat Sc ience, from p. 45 
0 >) subjoin a note which was kindly fur- 
from tv n by Townseild - “The specimen 
adStIn^ a i y0 \t SCribed ’ WaS doubt iess that of an 
and all +n Saw ’ P erba P s ’ twenty or thirty, 
nd all the same size ; several of the hunters and 
