374 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Of Mammals, a grey Rabbit or two (Lepus sylvaticus, Bachm.) 
were alone visible at intervals. This animal so strongly resembles 
the English Rabbit as hardly to be distinguishable from it at a 
little distance ; it runs in the same manner, but does not burrow 
like that, and though I believe it does not squat in form like our 
hare, its habits are as much those of the latter as of the former, 
the species appearing to connect the two, as was remarked long 
ago by the Swedish naturalist, Kalm, in his travels in North 
America. Some Toads, Frogs, and a few small Lizards (Zropido- 
lepis undulatus) were seen occasionally, the latter chiefly on the 
Pines, the trunks of which they traversed in all directions with 
great agility. This species is not above six or eight inches in 
length ; its colours, though grave, are harmoniously disposed and 
blended. The Saurians are an order of reptiles remarkably limited 
in the United States, the genera and species comprised in it being 
few as compared with those included under the remaining orders 
of Chelonians, Ophidians, Salamanders, and Batrachians. Ac- 
cording to Dr. Holbrook, about fourteen species only of the 
Lizard tribe are at present known to inhabit the whole of the 
United States, and of these many are restricted in their range to 
the southern and western parts of that vast territory. Yet this 
very limited amount of species comprehends forms the most ex- 
treme in point of size, from the giant Alligator of ten or twelve 
feet, to the pigmy Anolis of scarcely as many inches in length. 
Nor are the individuals of this order so numerous as one might 
expect to find them in the hot, dry, and sandy Pine region of the 
Atlantic States, since I have never remarked them to swarm there 
as in Italy and the South of Europe generally. We came upon 
two huge Black Snakes (Coluber constrictor) near a creek by the 
road side; these I endeavoured to kill for examination, but they 
made a precipitate retreat, one taking to the water, the other to 
the bush, into which I pursued it, yet neither offered to stir till 
a blow had been aimed at each with a thick walking-cane. The 
former lay coiled up by the water’s edge, the second closely 
twined around a shrub with its head erect, and the fore-part of 
the body outstretched, regarded me with the utmost composure 
