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OF THE HARE TRIBE IN GENERAL. 



HARES subsist entirely on vegetables. The 

 habitations of most of the species are burrows, 

 formed under the surface of the ground. Some of 

 them collect into flocks of five or six hundred, or 

 even more, and migrate in these numbers' from 

 place to place, frequently to a great distance, in 

 search of food. 



In Dr. Shaw's excellent work on General Zoology, 

 a very curious particular is related respecting these 

 animals. He informs us, that when Hares are con- 

 sidered with anatomical exactness, they exhibit 

 some peculiarities of structure, by which they make 

 an indistinct approach to the ruminating animals; 

 and that the Common Hare is, by many persons, 

 supposed actually to ruminate. This opinion has 

 been derived not merely from the peculiar motions 

 observable in the mouth, which present an obscure 

 appearance of rumination, but from the structure 

 of the stomach, which is marked, as it were, into 

 two regions, by a particular fold or ridge. 



The females generally produce from three to 

 eight young ones at a birth. 



In the northern latitudes, where the frosts of 



winter are very intense, and where snow lies for 



several months on the ground, all the Hares, at the 



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