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THE MAMMALS OP EGYPT. 
Lepus habessinicus, Hemp. & Ehrenb. (Plate LVI.) 
Lepus habessinicus, Hemp. & Ehrenb. Symb. Phys. 1832, pi. xv. fig. 2; Waterhouse, Maram. ii. 
1848, p. 87. 
Lejms (sgyptius, Cretzschm. Riipp. Atlas, 1828, p. 53; Blanforcl, Geol. Zool. Abyss. 1870, p. 273. 
. Suakin Plain. Head preserved in alcohol. 
. Suakin llain. Capt. Henderson, R.N. (Figured.) 
d. Suakin. Dr. Foot. 
Size rather small, form slender. Ears moderate, measuring about times the 
length of the head. Legs and feet moderate, rather slight. Fur rather short, without 
conspicuous outstanding hairs. 
General colour dark grey, strongly washed with black all over the dorsal area and 
head. The nape rufous fawn. The ears almost naked over the general surface; the 
margins buff-white, except near the tips, where they are yellowish ; black tips on 
the posterior sides. The tail with yellowish borders to the black on the upper side. 
The legs paler and more fawn-coloured than the body, but somewhat grizzled. 
The specimen from which the Plate was drawn is in very Avorn coat, and the rich 
black-brown tips to the fur which are present in the normal condition have almost 
entirely disappeared; the Avhole of the under parts are also much damaged. 
Dr. Anderson made the following note from specimens freshly obtained :_ 
mm. mm. 
“Snout to vent. 4]5 g-Q 
Vent to tip of tail . . . .'. 90 7 ^ 
Height of ear, external meatus. 100 102 
Height of ear behind. I 35 2 .J 4 
Length of tarsus and digits. 95 91 
Snout to eye. 40 37 
Length of eye. 18 17 
Eye to external meatus. 45 49 
“ In the young the ears are short and there is a small black spot on the hinder 
surface of the ear below the tip. 
“ Common on Suakin Plain.” 
In form and coloration this hare somewhat resembles L. sgyptius, but the ears are 
very much shorter and the colour very much darker. The pattern of the enamel fold 
in the incisors also is practically the same in the tAvo species, and there is no doubt 
that they are nearly allied. 
