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Measurements of skulls. 
Greatest length. 
„ breadth . 
Basal length. 
Front of incisors to back of palate. 
Length of molar series (alveolar). 
Anterior point of zygoma to front of incisors. 
Length of snout, middle line of nasals from central imaginary 
point. 
Breadth of faee outside posterior processes of premaxillm . . 
,, nasals anteriorly. 
6 . Suakin. 
$. Zoula. 
Brit. Mus. 
Dr. Foot. 
No. 69.10.24.14. 
mm. 
mm. 
83 
86-5 
39 
67 
70 
34 
36-5 
14-5 
15 
30-5 
34 
33-5 
35 
21-5 
21 
11 
12 
Dr. Blanford collected specimens of this hare at Zoula, near Annesley Bay, and one 
of the specimens still in the British Museum agrees so closely with a specimen from 
the Suakin Plain that there can he no question as to their specific identity. The 
measurements of the skull of this specimen, No. 69.10.24.14, are given above. 
Dr. Blanford questions the identity of this hare with L. hahessinicus, Ehrenb.; hut I 
cannot agree in this view, and have no hesitation in assigning the specimens before 
me to that species, which was founded on a hare from the same locality and the 
description of which agrees with the specimen in poor coat figured in the Plate. 
Dr. Anderson made the following note on the type specimen in the Berlin 
Museum:— 
Lepus hahessinicus, H. & Ehr. Type. 
” Abyssinia, No. 900. Hemprich and Ehi’enherg. 
“ The fur of this animal has the same character as that of L. cegyptius, hut it is 
distinguished by its much shorter ears. Skull in specimen.” 
Lepus EOTHSCHILDI, de Winton. 
Lepus rothschildi, de Winton, Nov. Zool. vol. ix. 1902, p. 444. 
Size intermediate between L. cegyptius and L. innesi, but form much more robust. 
Ears rather large and broad, measuring about 1^ times the length of the head. Legs 
apparently rather short; feet large and broad, with very thick hairy cushions. Fur- 
far denser and longer than in any other Egyptian species, with conspicuous long 
white hairs on the shoulders and sides. General colour pale isabelline-fawn, strongly 
