OGOTONA HARE. 



is found, being largest about the Altaic moan-*' 

 tains, and smaller about Lake Baikal, &c. 



OGOTONA HARE. 



Lepus Ogotona. L. ecaudatus griseo-pallidus, auriculis ovalibus 

 subacutis concohribus. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 166. Pall. 

 Glir.p. $9.t. 3 . 

 Tailless pale-brown Hare, with oval subacute ears of the same 



colour. 

 Ogotona Hare. Pennant Quadr. 2. p. 109. 



THIS animal, says Dr. Pallas, is called by the 

 Mongolians by the name of Ogotona, and is an 

 inhabitant of rocky mountains, or sandy plains, 

 burrowing under the soil, or concealing itself un- 

 der heaps of stones, and forming a soft nest at no 

 great depth from the surface. It wanders about 

 chiefly by night, and sometimes appears by day, 

 especially in cloudy weather. In autumn it col- 

 lects, heaps of various vegetables for its Avinter 

 food, in the same manner as the Alpine hare, be- 

 fore described, disposing them into neat hemi- 

 spherical heaps of about afoot in diameter. These 

 heaps are prepared in the month of September, 

 and are entirely consumed by the end of winter. . 



The Ogotona Hare is about six inches or somer 

 what more in length, and is of a pale brown co- 

 lour above, and white beneath: on the nose is 

 >a yellowish spot, and the outsides of the limbs 



