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LEPUS. HARE. 



Generic Character. 



Denies Primores utrinque 

 duo; superiores duplicati, 

 intcrioribus minoribus. 



Front-teeth two both above 

 and below: the upper pair 

 duplicate; two small inte- 

 rior ones standing behind 

 the exterior. 



HIS genus, when considered with anatomical 

 exactness, exhibits particularities of structure, de- 

 viating somewhat from that of the Glires, and 

 making an indistinct approach to the Pecora or 

 Ruminants, It has even been supposed that the 

 common hare actually ruminates ; an opinion 

 owing not only to the peculiar motions of the 

 mouth, which present an obscure appearance of 

 rumination, but to the structure of the stomach, 

 which is marked as it were into two regions by a 

 particular fold or ridge. Other singularities rela- 

 tive to internal formation may be met with in the 

 works of comparative anatomists. 



