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APPENDIX. 
This species is larger than the L. Variabilis; the average weight being 
about 8 lbs. : the ears are longer in proportion to the head than those of the 
common hare, (L. Timidus,) and much longer than those of the L. Variabilis ; 
the ears of the common hare are usually considered one-tenth longer than 
the head, those of the present species are from one-fifth to one-seventh ; the 
fore teeth are curves of a much larger circle, and the orbits of the eye project 
much more than those of either of the other species ; the toes are five before 
and four behind, the fifth toe of the fore foot being very small, scarcely 
indeed more than a claw, and situated close to the knee ; the claws are 
broad, depressed, and strong: those of the L. Timidus and Variabilis being, 
on the contrary, compressed and weak : the hind leg is shorter in proportion 
to the size of the animal, than in the Variabilis. The fur is exceedingly thick 
and woolly, of the purest white in spring and autumn, excepting a tuft of long 
black hair at the tips of the ears, which is reddish brown at the base : the 
whiskers are also black at the base for half their length. In some of the full 
grown specimens killed in the height of summer, the hair of the back and 
sides was a greyish brown towards the points, but the mass of fur 
beneath still remained white ; the face and the front of the ears were 
a deeper grey. The fur is interspersed with long solitary hairs which, 
in many individuals were banded with brown and white in the middle 
of summer. The hares which Mr. Hearne describes in his northern 
voyage to inhabit the continent of America as high as the 72° of lati- 
tude, are stated to weigh 14 or 15 lbs., when full grown, and in good con- 
dition : the largest hare which was killed at Melville Island, did not amount 
to 9 lbs. Were it not for this difference in size, they might be supposed, from 
other parts of the description, to be the same species. 
7. Lemmus Hudsonius. Hudson's Bay Lemming. 
Are abundant in the country on the west side of Davis’ Strait, and in the 
islands of the Polar Sea, but are probably unknown in Greenland, as they 
