50 GLIRES. THE HARE TRIBE. 



Le Muscardin. Buff. Sonn. xxvi. p. 23, tab. 2, fig. 

 2. Cuv. Tab. Element, 141. 



Common Dormouse. Shaw's Gen. Zool. ii. p. 167, 

 tab. 154. Bing. Anim. Biog. 3d edit. i. p. 477. 



Dormouse. Penn. Brit. Zool. i. p. 110. 



Dormouse or Sleeper. Smellie's Buffon, iv. p. 336, 

 tab. 95. 



THE HARE TRIBE. Front-teeth in each jaw two, 

 the upper ones double, having two small interior teeth 

 standing behind the others. LEPUS. Linn. Syst. Nat. 

 Gmel. gen. 22, i. p. 160. 



Grinders appearing as if formed of vertical plates. Toes 

 five on the fore, and four on the hind feet. Tail short and 

 turned upward, or entirely wanting. W. B. 



33. THE COMMON HARE. Tail short; ears tipped with 

 black, and longer th,an the head. Lepus timidus. Linn. 



Length about 2 feet. Weight from 7 to lOlb. Head oblong, some- 

 what egg-shaped. Eyes large, black, and prominent, situated out- 

 wards, and furnished with a winking membrane. Ears very large, 

 and generally tipped with black. Hind-legs so long, that, measured 

 from the uppermost joint to the toe, they are equal to half the length 

 of the back, from the rump to the nose. Feet clad with 'hair, both 

 above and below. Tail very short. 



Colour of the upper parts a kind of brown, which approaches so 

 nearly to the colour of dead leaves, that when the animal is in its 

 usual haunts, about thickets or the bottoms of close hedges, it is ge- 

 nerally concealed from sight. Each of the hairs is white at the root, 

 black in the middle, and tawny red at the point. Throat, breast, 

 and belly white. W. B. 



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