Lagomys
a genus of rodents, much resembling hares or rabbits, but with limbs of more equal length, more perfect , longer claws, longer head, shorter ears, and no tail. There are about a dozen species, one in S. E. Europe, one on the Rocky Mountains, and the rest on the mountains of northern Asia. They are about the size of guinea pigs, and make burrows, but are parinteresting for their habit of stacking choice herbage for winter use.
The stacks of the Siberian species, the Alpine Alpine lagomys, or pika (L. alpinus), hunters for fodder. are said to be utilized by the sable- LAGOON (lā-gön'), a shallow lake or sheet of water, connected with the sea or Italy, South America, etc. Also a a river, found on the coasts of Holland, sheet of water surrounded by an ATOLL Also (q. v.). a a LAGOPUS (-ō'pus), ptarmigan, has the base thickly feathered, the eyegenus of Tetraonidæ (grouse). The bill brows are naked and smooth, the tarsus and toes thickly covered with feathers in winter. L. scoticus is the red grouse. vulgaris, is the ptarmigan.
L. albus is the willow grouse of the Swedish Peninsula, Russia, and Siberia. coast of Portugal, 30 miles E. N. E. from LAGOS (lägös), a seaport on the S. the extremity of Cape St. Vincent; pop. about 8,000; principal industry tunny fisheries. In the bay of Lagos Admiral Boscawen defeated the French Toulon fleet , Aug. 18, 1759.
LAGOS (lā'gos) a town on the W. porary capital of Nigeria. Pop. about coast of Africa, since 1914 the temof Africa, since 1914 the tem- 60,000. der the protection of Great Britain, and