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Tail short, hairy and elevated ; a fold of skin 

 forming a sort of pouch in each groin. 



Mammae to the number of six or ten. An enor- 

 mous caecum, with a spiral lamina which runs its 

 whole length. 



The infra-orbitar cavity is cribriform in the 

 skeleton. 



Habit. Nocturnal, timid, exclusively phytivo- 

 rous. 



Inhabit both continents under all latitudes. 



Species. 



1. Lepus americamis, Erxleb. Gmel. Schoepf. 

 Naturf 20. p. 20. 

 Lepus hudsoniiis, Pall. Glir. part 1. p. 30. Bodd. 

 American Rabbit. 



Char. Essent, Colour, a grayish-fawn, varied 

 with brown ; nucha fawn ; beneath the neck and 

 belly white ; ears shorter than the head, without 

 black at the extremity; tail grayish above, and 

 white beneath. 



Dimensions. Total length one foot two inches ; 

 of the head three inches six lines ; of the ears two 

 inches three lines ; of the tail two inches. 



Description. Ears shorter in proportion than 

 those of the Hare or European Rabbit ; thumb of 

 the fore feet very short and elevated ; colour very 

 similar to that of the European Rabbit, varied with 

 blackish-brown and reddish, more red about the 

 shoulders than elsewhere, whitish-gray about the 



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