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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
and the points are pale buff, almost cream colour, but some of the hairs have blackish tips, W 
are in some specimens sufficiently numerous to produce a distinctly dark wash. The le»» ^ 
of the fur on the middle of the back is about II inches. On the sides and rump the hair ^ 
darker grey at the base, and the dusky ring near the tip is wanting. The hairs on the n a r 
are pale rufous throughout, on the breast pale rufous to almost white, with the basal p° r ' 
ashy. Hair of the face rather long, ashy at the base, then brown, becoming darker near 
tip, which is generally very pale ; some hairs, however, have black tips. Round the eye 
fur is paler. Whiskers very few and inconspicuous, the upper black, the lower br°^ t 
white. Anterior external surface of ears the same colour as the face, posterior portion 1’^., 
isabelline or whitish. The apex in some is dusky, hut in two specimens out of the foui 
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hand near the posterior edge very faint. Eore-legs very pale brown in front; hind-leg 8 
paler brown outside; pads rather darker, hut variable as usual. Tail white below and at 
sides, with a broad dark brown band above, the hairs of which are dusky grey at the base- ^ 
One striking peculiarity of this very pale coloured hare is the absence of any 
patches and of all grey colouration throughout. All the specimens were shot in winter. * 
animal is very small, the following dimensions being from one of Dr. Stoliczka’s labels 
Yarkand skin: — 
Inches. 
17 ' 
4 3 
is scarcely perceptible, and it is not black in any. Long hairs on anterior edge of ear rr 
those inside the ear of the same colour, but becoming buff towards the margin ; the ‘ 
Length 
Tail from vent. 
Length of ear from base 
Greatest width of do. 
Length of head 
Length of fore-foot. 
Do. hind-foot 
5-25 
2-8 
36 
2-15 
4-25 
In the skin the length from nose to rump of this specimen is 18 inches; ears from ,j 
-fho novo /L*3 * nn/lfli rvP dqv loir! flnf 9. *9. Pi • fnvcniQ A, A* 9. Pi Tn ■flio clrolofnn t,ll6 ^ 
between the ears 4 - 3 ; width of ear laid flat 2'25 ; tarsus 4 to 4' 25. In the skeleton the 
measures 3 - 2 inches, vertebrae of neck and body 1T5, tail, consisting of 12 vertebrae, 3'"°' 
The following are the dimensions of a skull, (PI. IVa, fig. 2.) It is very small, th° l1 ^ 
fully adult, with peculiar short nasals, which are somewhat irregularly truncated behind 
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their outer margins, but slope away from the posterior end of the suture, where the 
fron t9 ' s 
project forward in a point ; each nasal is convex in front, the suture occupying a depi’ esS 
The breadth behind the postorbital processes is greater than in the allied species, and 
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Length from occiput to front of incisors . . • 
Breadth across zygomatic arches . 
Width between orbits across middle of postorbital processes 
Do. of frontal hones behind do. . 
Length of nasal bones ....... 
Width of do. behind ...... 
Do. do. in front ...... 
Length of six upper molars taken together 
genus : — 
M etre. 
Inches. 
•078 
3-1 
•037 
1-45 
•021 
0-82 
•014 
055 
•0285 
1-13 
■0155 
0-61 
■01 
0-4 
•014 
0-55 
1 This, I think, does not include the tail. 
2 Evidently the hair at the end is included. 
