LEPUS 
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BACHMANI . — W aterhopse, 
Bachman’s Hare. 
PLATE CV III.— Males. 
L. Supra fuscus, lateribus cinereo fuscis, ventre albo rufo-tincto ; L, 
sylvatico aliquantulo minor, auriculis capite paullo kmgioribus. 
CHARACTERS. 
A little smaller than the gray rabbit ; ears rather longer than the head ; 
tarsi, short. Colour, brown above, gray-brown on the sides, belly white, tinged 
with rufous. 
SYNONYMES. 
Lepcs Bachmani. Waterhouse, Proceedings Zool. Soc. 1838, p. 103. 
Bachman’s Hare, Bach. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. viii. 
part 1, p. 96. 
“ “ Waterhouse, Nat. Hist. Mamm., vol. ii. p. 124. 
DESCRIPTION. 
This Hare bears a general resemblance to the gray rabbit (L. 
sylvaticus), but is considerably smaller : the fur is softer and the ears 
shorter than in that species. 
Upper incisors, much arched, and deeply grooved ; claws, slender and 
pointed — the claw of the longest toe remarkably slender ; ears longer 
than the head, sparingly furnished with hair quite fine and closely 
adpressed externally ; tail, short ; feet, thickly clothed with hair covering 
the nails. 
COLOUR. 
The fur on the back and sides is deep gray at the roots, annulated near 
the ends of the hairs with brownish-white, and black at the points. On the 
belly the hair is gray at the roots and white at the points, with a tinge of 
red ; chest and fore parts of the neck, gray-brown, each hair being dusky at 
the tip ; chin and throat, grayish- white ; the hairs on the head are brownish 
