210 LEPORID&. 
RODENTIA. LEPORID. 
Fig. 80. 
Nat. size. Kent’s Hole. 
LEPUS TIMIDUS. Hare. 
Hare, or very large rabbit, Buck LanD, Reliquiz Diluvianz, pp. 19, 267, 
pl. 13, fig. 8. 
Lievre des cavernes, Cuvirr, Ossemens Fossiles, tom. v. pt. i. p. 55 
Tue land that could grow vegetation sufficient for the 
sustenance of colossal Mammoths, ponderous Rhinoceroses, 
and huge species of Deer and Oxen, may well be supposed 
to have afforded an abundant table for the smaller grami- 
nivorous quadrupeds, as the Hares and Rabbits; and it 
would seem that these, like the weakest species of the 
pliocene Carnivora, have survived and escaped those exter- 
minating influences to which the gigantic quadrupeds have 
succumbed. 
Dr. Buckland makes mention of “‘the jaw of a Hare, and 
a few teeth and bones of Rabbits and Mice, amongst the 
fossils of the Kirkdale Cave,” and has given excellent figures 
of them in the‘ Reliquie Diluviane.’? Cuvier notices these 
illustrations of the fossil Leporide, in his great work. The 
heel-bone (calcaneum) figured in Pl. x. fig. 14, of the 
