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has observed, becomes clotted and tangled here 

 and there, as in a specimen figured in Buffon, 

 where a mass of the fur hangs down on one side 

 in such a manner as to resemble an additional 

 leg. Edwards's drawing above mentioned is called, 

 in the memorandum annexed to it, A Rabbet from 

 3foscoi'y, and is described as follows : 



" This Rabbit is about the bigness of our 

 largest tame Rabbits in England. It has a 

 double skin all over the back, so that it can roll 

 itself up in a round form, putting its head under 

 the upper skin, and its feet into a pouch under 

 the throat. It has also a flap of thick wool which 

 it places its feet upon when it sits. It has a small 

 hole in the skin on the back, which srives liorht 



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to the eye when the head is under the skin. It 

 was shewn to the Royal Society of London in the 

 year 1736, and acknowledged to be natural:" 

 In the same volume of drawings is a figure of 



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the skin itself, which is evidently no other than 

 the ragged spoil of some long-haired Rabbet ; the 

 head and feet in the preceding figure (which re- 

 presents the animal in its supposed complete state) 

 being evidently added by Edwards and coloured 

 brown, like those of a common Rabbet, though 

 the enveloping skin itself is white. 



