92 REMARKS ON THE GENUS LEPUS. 
with long hairs, which are reddish-fawn at the 
roots and white at the tips. The interior of the 
ear is very thinly scattered with beautiful fine white 
hairs, being more thickly clothed towards the edge 
where it is grizzled-black and yellowish, but the 
edge itself is fringed with pure white, becoming 
yellowish towards the tip, and at the tip is black. 
Whiskers nearly as long as the head, for the most 
part white, black at the roots, a few hairs are pure 
white, others wholly black. 
The specimen from which the above description 
and drawing were taken, was a female, procured by 
Mr. Townsend on the Walla-walla, one of the 
sources of the Columbia river. The following note, 
by the discoverer of this hare, reached me at Edin- 
burgh, after the above description was made. It 
will afford valuable information in regard to its 
habits. 
“The specimen is that of a female — and the 
species is common on the Rocky Mountains. I 
made particular inquiries, both of the Indians and 
British traders, as to the changes it undergoes at 
different seasons, and they all agreed that it never 
was lighter colored. W e first saw it on the plains 
of the Black-foot River, west of the mountains, 
and observed it in all similar situations during our 
loute to the Columbia. When first seen, which 
was in July, it was lean and unsavory, having, like 
our common species, the larva of an insect im- 
bedded in its neck; but when we arrived at Walla- 
walla, in September, we found the Indians, and the 
persons attached to the fort, using them as a com- 
