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Show 962 ON MAMMALS FROM MOROCCO. [Dec 14. Collector's measurements :-Head and body 377 mdlim.; tail 80 ; hind foot 100; ear (from notch) 115; in dried skin from the crown 127. A second specimen, Glarvi, 28th May, 1897 :-Head and body 406 millim.; tail 70; hind foot 110 ; ear (from notch) 120. 19. LEPUS SCHLUMBERGERI, St. Loup, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xix. p. 168. (Skull, fig. 4, p. 961.) cS . Schaf el Kab, 2nd March, 1897. " Lives in burrows " (E. D.). Collector's measurements:-Head and body 470 millim.; tail 50 ; hind foot 120 ; ear 103. The Hare of the neighbourhood of Tangier was described in 1894; a fuller description will be found in the Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, for February 1898 by the present writer. The tail of this specimen seems to have been docked, the normal length being proportionately about that of the Common Hare. 20. LEPUS CUNICULUS, L. Skin and skull, o*. Karia el Habessi, 19th March, 1897. This specimen appears to me to agree in every particular with our common Wild Babbit-an interesting fact, seeing that fresh blood and improving crosses have been so freely indulged in among our British stock. 21. Ovis TRAGELAPHUS, Desm. 2 juv. Ecru, 17th June, 1897. "Found lying under a rock; no others seen at the time, though several were met with during a ' drive ' but not obtained " (E. D.). |