198 FAUNA AMERICANA. 



bring forth several times a year, three or four at 

 a time, after a gestation of about thirty days. 



The above description is taken principally 

 from a prepared specimen in the possession of 

 Mr. C. Bonaparte, and was killed on the Blue 

 Mountains, in the state of Pennsylvania. 



Inhabit the southern and middle states, and 

 most probably as far north as New England. 



Note.' — It is most probably this species alluded 

 to by Mr. Lewis, in his JSTotice of Animals dis- 

 covered in the Missouri country. " A species of 

 hare, apparently the Lepus variabilis^ or varying 

 hare, which is common in Hudson's Bay, New 

 York, Pennsylania, Virginia, &c." (Vid. Barton's 

 Med. and Phys. Journal, vol. ii. part 2. page 159.) 



