70 
SECOND YARKAND MISSION, 
Metre. 
Inches* 
. -016 
0-62 
. -006 
025 
. -012 
0-48 
. -022 
0-88 
. -0625 1 
2-47 
. -037 
1-48 
Length of six upper molars taken together 
Do. of palate behind palatine opening 
Breadth of palate between 3rd pair of molars . 
Length of palatine opening • ••••• 
Do. of lower jaw from the angle to the anterior alveolar 
margin 
Height of do ' U3 ' J -"*° ^ Q f 
This species inhabits the outer hills of the Thian Shan range north and north-^es 
Kashghar, and is frequently referred to in Dr. Stoliezka’s diary; it appears to he very a 
Lepus stolicz/canus is perhaps allied to L. lehmcmni of Severtzolf, the hare of ^ ^ 
Turkestan. The latter, however, is described as having the ears but little longer than^ f 
head. 2 The colouration, too, presents several differences, as will he seen from the fol 0 ^ 
description of L. lehmcmni i “The colour is just like that of L. timiclus , 3 the shoulder ‘ 
back are yellowish grey brown ; each hair is marked with black and light yellowis 
rings ; the flanks are lighter, in summer they are yellowish-grey, and ash coloured m ^ 
the nose, cheeks and tip (? top) of the head are grey ; the nape of the neck is greyis 1 y 
with soft unicolorous hair ; the throat and breast as far as the front legs are greyish y 
the hair being brownish yellow with grey tips ; in summer the underfur on the c ^ 
portions of the animal is light brown grey, and in winter grey ; the tail is white with * ^ 
black line on the upper portion; the belly is white. The ears are greyish white with ^ 
centre line of the colour of the back on the exterior, and with a narrow black edge 
terminal half of the ear.” t j 
The colour of the neck in L. stoliczkanus is pale rufous, not greyish yellow, an 
ears are very light brown, not greyish white ; besides several other differences. }e5 
9fi' 
L. tolai, both of which are found, according to Pallas, (Zoog. Ros. As. I., p. 149,) ^ gl 
Trans-Baikal region and the deserts of Mongolia ; and L. hybridus{?) from the Altai naouh ^ 
We have as yet no satisfactory information as to the hare or hares found in Afghanis a 
Northern Persia. , v 
No species is enumerated amongst the animals brought from Eastern Tibet J ^ 
David, and described by M.M. Milne-Edwards, 4 whilst the only form observed by 
traveller in Northern China was L. tolai (Nouvelles Arch, du Mus., 1867, Vol. Ill," A* 
' ' " 11 J J “ — :i " 1 ““ 7/ ‘ p 
P 
0 
are very ngnt Drown, not grey isn w niie , ubmucs scyokm 0C 
The other hares hitherto described from Central Asia, besides Hodgson’s two ^ 
already mentioned, L. oiostolus and L. pallipes, are L. tvaiidus, L., (A. variabilis. Pa • ^ ^ 
p, 27). Eurther to the north-east a hare was found by Radde and described as L- ^ 
shuricus, 5 6 and from Eastern or South-Eastern China another form is known, L. sinens 
the £ List of the specimens of mammalia in the British Museum’ (1843), p. 126, a Lepus 
> Turk. Jev., p. 83 ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Aug. 1876, Ser. 4, Vol. xviii, p. 169. b , 
* In the original description of L. stoliczkanus I stated that the ears in L. lehmanni were the same length as tn 
the complete translation of Severtzoff’s descriptions subsequently published in the Annals and Magazine of Natural I *>> 1 
ears are said to be “ longer than the head : if bent forward along the side of the head, they extend beyond it about 6-7 ^ ^ 
dimensions of the ears in the dried specimens of L. stoliczkanus show that the difference in length in this species wou 
3 That is the L. europmis of Pallas, L. timidus of some modern authors, not of Linnaeus, 
is of course, L. variabilis of Pallas. 
4 Nouv. Arch. Mus., 1871, vii, Bull. p. 90. 
5 Radde, Bull. Acad. St. Pet., 1861, iv, p. 52. 
6 Gray and Hardwicke, Illustrations of Indian Zoology ; see also Blyth, J. A. S. B., 1861, xxx, p. 90. 
The true L. timidus 
of P" D 
