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Show 1905.] HARES FROM SOUTHERN SWEDEN. 285 mediate, measuring only 7\ cm., and the hind foot was 16 cm. In its general colour it resembles L. timidus (bluish-grey variety) more than the specimen described above, but there is, on the other hand, a very conspicuous inheritance from L. europceus. The back has a rusty-brown colour modified by whitish and yellowish liair-tips, but below these tips the hairs are not so dark as in L. europceus, and may be described as dirty umber-brown. On the sides of the breast the broad white or whitish-ashy tips dominate, and below them the hairs are rusty brown, and the under-fur is light rusty yellowish-grey. The chest is covered by very long white tips to the hairs, but below these the fur is pale rusty yellow, a certain inheritance from L. europceus. On the neck and round the ears the rusty colour is less concealed as the white tips are shorter. The flanks and hind-quarters are mostly bluish ash, perhaps with a rusty hue on the flanks. The same colour extends on the lower back about 12 cm. from the tail. The feet are coloured as in the foregoing hybrid specimen, but the tail is less grey above, although more so than in L. timidus. Still more like L. timidus was another hybrid presented by Count C. C. Beck-Friis, and shot at Borringe, in Scania, at the end of January 1905. The greater part of the body of this Hare is bluish ashy, but a large patch 18 cm. in length and 7 cm. in breadth on the back behind the shoulders is sandy brown. This colour is produced by a mixing of rusty yellow, white, and brown tips to the hairs, but below these tips the hairs are almost as dark brown as in L. europceus, from which it undoubtedly is an inheritance. Towards the periphery at the patch mentioned this colour becomes paler. The under-fur has a more or less rusty tinge all over the back. The hairs of the neck are rusty with white or ashy tips, and the hairs of the chest and lower neck are pale rusty yellow with long white tips to the hairs ; but here, as well, the inheritance from L. europceus is quite conspicuous. Nose and forehead rusty; sides of the nose and the head and a broad streak behind the eye white, a patch below and behind the eye ashy grey. Ears rusty brown on the anterior side, black-tipped, and white behind; inside of the ear-conchs coloured as in L. europceus. Their length may be termed intermediate, as it measures 12-7 cm. The hind feet are also intermediate in length, measuring 15'8 cm. The skull resembles most nearly L. timidus with regard to the shape and dimensions of the nasals and the zygomatic arch. There are three enamel-folds on the first premolar of the maxillary, but the third is not much developed and it resembles therefore the same in L. europceus *. * [Siuce this paper was read I have had the opportunity of seeing another specimen of hybrid Hare which had been shot near Gothenburg. The " German Hares ' ' introduced there had been obtained from Frankfurt-am-Main, where Lepus europceus assumes a more pronounced winter garb extending over the flanks and haunches. The Variable Hare has also in the neighbourhood of Gothenburg a lighter winter coat than in Scania, and is often quite white, consequently the hybrid Hare from Gothenburg was much lighter than the hybrids from Scania. It was almost white with a large brownish saddle-patcli. The characteristic rusty |