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many acts of personal kindness, — we discovered a 
small species of nndescribed hare, sent from the 
western coast of America, by Douglass. He de- 
scribed it under the above name before the Zoologi- 
cal Society, and has politely offered me the use of 
his manuscript, from which, in order to render the 
synopsis of our American species of this genus as 
complete as possible, I have copied his description. 
“ General Characters. — Inform, this species bears 
a general resemblance to Lepus palustris , but is 
only one-third of its size. Color less yellow ; ears 
longer in proportion ; feet densely clothed with hair, 
so as to cover the nails. Lower surface of the tail 
white ; upper surface gray-black — most of the hairs 
being annulated near the tip with whitish. Upper 
incisors much arched and deeply grooved. 
“ Fur very long and soft, of a deep gray color, an- 
nulated near the apex with brownish-white, black 
at the points ; on the belly gray at the base ; chest 
and fore part of the neck, with the hairs, colored as 
those of the sides of the body; viz., the visible por- 
tion is brownish-white, each hair being dusky at 
the tip. Chin and throat gray-white. The hairs 
on the head colored like those of the body. An in- 
distinct, palish, longitudinal dash on the flanks, 
just above the haunches ; roots of the tail, beneath, 
white. The general color of the tarsus, above, is 
white ; the hairs, however, are grayish- white at the 
base, then annulated with very pale buff color, 
almost white, and pure white at the points. The 
sides of the tarsus brown. The long hairs which 
cover the under part of the tarsus, as well as that 
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