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Lepus caudd abbreviatd, auriculis apice nigris, capite 

 longioribus. --'Lepus timidus. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel, i. 

 p. 160. Fabricius Fauna Groenlandica, p. 25. 



Lepus caudd abbreviatd, pedibus posticis longitudine 

 corporis dimidii, auriculis apice nigris. Lepus timidus. 

 Erxleben, Syst. regn. animal, gen. 32, sp. 1, p. 325. 



Lepus timidus. Common Hare. Turton, i. p. 100. 

 Kerr, p. 277. 



Lepus vulgaris, cinereus. Klein, quad. disp. p. 51. 



Lepus. Brisson, regn. animal, p. 138. Gesner, 165. 

 Ruysch, i. pa. 1, p. 109. 



Lepus. THE HARE. Raii. Syn. quad. p. 204. 



Le Lie-ore. Buff. Sonn. xxiv. p. 194, tab. 9, fig. 1, 



Le Lievre commun. Cuv. Tab. Element, p. 131. 



Common Hare. Penn. Quad. ii. p. 98. Shaw's Gen. 

 Zool. ii. p. 197, tab. 162, fig. 2. Bing. Anim. Biog. 3d 

 edit. i. p. 484. 



Hare. Penn. Brit. Zool. i. p. 198. Smellie's Buffon, 

 iv. p. 137, tab. 58. 



34. THE VARYING HARE. Tail short, ears shorter than 

 the head; the whole of the fur white in the winter, except 

 the tips of the ears, which are always black. Lepus variabi- 

 Us. Linn. 



The size of the Varying Hare, in Scotland, is considerably less 

 than that of the Common Species ; the former weighing only about 

 six pounds and a half, and the latter from eight to twelve pounds. 

 But in Russia and Siberia it greatly exceeds the Common Hare in 

 size. Ears shorter, and legs more slender than those of the latter ani- 

 mal. Fur soft and thick, and extends over the soles of the feet. 



Edges and tips of the ears, and the soles of the feet black. In 

 summer the head is of a greyish tawny colour; and the ear* and 

 back are tawny, but somewhat mixed with black. The sides become 

 gradually whiter from the back downwards ; and the belly is white. 



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