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Show 1870.] MR. R. SWINHOE ON CHINESE ZOOLOGY. 449 black, iris fine clear yellow; legs and toes clear yellow, with black claws. Left Peking on the 7th of October, and reached Chefoo by steamer on tbe 12th, where I spent a day or two. While out for a walk, put up a Chefoo Hare. This Hare is sent by the European residents at Chefoo to their friends in the south, and is a great treat when compared with the small species Lepus sinensis (Gray), which is the ordinary Chinese animal. It is, when cooked, as fully flavoured as the English Hare, and in general appearance greatly resembles it, but is smaller and varies in the colour of its fur from the brightness of Lepus timidus (L.) to a ruddy cream-colour. I have several specimens of its skin and skull, and I cannot distinguish it from Lepus tolai, Pall. Pere David procured it in the neighbourhood of Peking, where I found the smaller and harsher-haired L. sinensis the prevailing species ; and he also reports it common in Mongolia. M y brightest specimen ( § ) has the head pale rufous-brown, deeper on the forehead and crown, and somewhat yellower on the outer surface of the ears, all mottled with black, the black appearing in an irregular streak or two on the cheeks ; tbe upper lips, chin, throat, and circle round the eye produced backwards in the form of a half eye-brow, are creamy white ; moustache- bristles white, some of them brown near their bases; inner surface of ear rufous cream-colour ; back of ear pale fawn-colour, with a broad brownish-black tip ; on the hind neck behind the ears an unmottled light rufous patch occurs; back yellowish rufous, with most of the hairs broadly tipped with black ; these hairs are dark brown towards their bases, with thick brownish-white down; rump and sides of thighs unmottled creamy rufous ; tail black on upper surface ; beneath white, as are all the underparts to the fore legs. Under neck, chest, sides of body and legs yellowish rufous, the fore legs with a creamy patch above the paws, and the inner surface of hind legs and feet creamy white. Long hairs are scattered over the upper parts. in. Length from muzzle to root of tail 19 of tail (including *75 of tip-hair) 3 • of head . 4 of ear 3 .- of fore leg from shoulder 6 of hind leg from hip 9 of skull 3 Width of skull (arch to arch) 1 between orbits 1 Length of nasal bones I Width of ditto behind of ditto in front Length of incisive opening Width of ditto behind Length of the six upper molar teeth together .... A second specimen ( 6") is lighter and more cream-coloured, with 80 75 54 63 1 53 81 53 88 43 65 |