BURROWING HARE. 28? 



a semilunar space ; and the tail is alleged to be 

 brown above, whereas it is generally black. How- 

 ever, no one can mistake the Rabbit, which is a 

 very common, pretty, and lively animal, of which 

 domesticated individuals are favourite pets with the 

 juvenile part of the community. 



The head of this species is of ordinary size, the 

 forehead convex, the muzzle rounded, the nose flat- 

 tened, the upper lip slit, the mouth small, as are the 

 nostrils, the eyes large and full, the ears approxi- 

 mated, oblong, rounded at the end. The body is 

 full and deep ; the fore limbs short, the others long; 

 the tail very short and recurved. There are five 

 toes before, four behind; the claws compressed, 

 rather long, slender, channelled, and acutely margin- 

 ate beneath, those of the fore feet more slender. 

 The pile or fur consists of two kinds of hairs. The 

 under-fur is greyish-blue, tipped on the upper parts 

 of the body with light reddish-brown, on the lower, 

 where it is coarser, with whitish. On the back of 

 the neck, where it is light reddish-brown, it exists 

 alone ; as well as on the soles, where it is coarse, 

 thick, and woolly ; in the intrafemoral regions ; and, 

 with very little mixture, on the tail. The general 

 colour of the upper parts is light reddish-brown, 

 tinged with grey, and mixed with brownish- black. 

 The mystachial bristles are black ; four or five of 

 them white, excepting the base and tip. The lower 

 parts are greyish-white ; the breast and a line to 

 the inguinal region tinged with light reddish-brown, 

 of which colour is a broad band in the inguinal re- 



