The natural history of Washington territory, with much relating to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oregon, and California, between the thirty-sixth and forty-ninth parallels of latitude, being those (14758084381)

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Title: The natural history of Washington territory, with much relating to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oregon, and California, between the thirty-sixth and forty-ninth parallels of latitude, being those parts of the final reports on the survey of the Northern Pacific railroad route, containing the climate and physical geography, with full catalogues and descriptions of the plants and animals collected from 1853 to 1857

Year: 1859 (1850s)

Authors: Cooper, J. G. (James Graham), 1830-1902 Suckley, George, 1830-1869 Cooper, William, 1798?-1864 Gibbs, George, 1815-1873 Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 LeConte, John L. (John Lawrence), 1825-1883 United States. War Dept. Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the ... route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean

Subjects: Natural history

Publisher: New York : Baillière brothers, London, H. Baillière (etc., etc.)

Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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rns white in winter. TheIndian from whom I obtained No. 142 assured me positively that it never turns white, andseemed to think with me that the other two skins, which were ivJiite, purchased at the sametime, belonged to a difierent species. I have obtained the Lepus Washingtonii at Puget Soundat all seasons; those killed in mid-winter showing no trace of a white winter coat. It may bethat some hares have the property of changing the color only during very severe cold weather,such as is rarely experienced in the vicinity of Puget Sound—the degree of cold, perhaps,regulating the change. I preserved a specimen in June, 1856, which was killed on White river, near Puget Sound. No. 104.—Measurements. Head to root of tail 16.50 inches. Tail vertebra3, about 1.60 Tail to hairy tip 2.50 Head to tip of nose 4.00 Height of ears from plane of occiput 3.87 Outstretched ears, from tip to tip 8.25 Folded ears project beyond nose .50 Easy girth of head in front of ears 5.75 Fk.. iS o^a^■e■^s

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THFj(;!i<u-d del RJyleTzerotksc ZOOLOGY. 131 Length from olecranon to end of longest nail 5.36 inches. Length from heel to end of longest toe-nail 4.50 From greater trochanter to end of toe-nail 11.00 Span of fore and hind legs, extreme reach 29.00 Length of longest whisker bristle 3.60 Chin and upper portion of throat white. A white linear streak under each nostril, belowwhich a line of the same color as the cheeks. Whiskers, some black; the others white; thelatter longest. Toe-nail coverts xvliite. External (posterioi) edge of concave surface ofear iohite upon a subterminal edging of black. Hairs of breast and abdoriien white to theirbases. Eyes full. This hare is frequentl)- found in the very thickest of the sombre Oregon forests. It also isplentiful among the scrub-oak bushes near the small lakes, on the Nisqually plains, where theirwell-beaten trails or run wajs are very apparent. They are also fond of the woody edgesof the prairies of that vicinity. In habits they much resemb

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