in. in. 101 



> in winter. At llie commencement of the 

 autumnal frosts, tli. . up the holes or en- 



trances of their inan-M.n, and gradually fall into a 

 torpidity, in which they continue till the 

 arrival of the MICH ceding spring. 



The g< mi- J.i-/i;ijs or Hare, i- easily distin- 

 guished aiming th<- rot of the Glires : the cult 



i in tin upper jaw being disposed in a double 

 pair; two small inner teeth being placed at the 

 base of the large or outward pair. As this is a 

 genus of which the history, (in the European 

 species at least) i> well known, I shall at present 

 only particularize the distinction between the 

 eoniinoii Hare and the Rabbet, which two animals 

 ach other so much, that the con- 

 stitution of a genuine specific character of each 

 been found a task of some diiliculty; and it 

 curious fait that the attempts at a specific 



r of the Rabbet in particular, by Linn; 

 in the- earlier editions of his Systema Nat;, 

 remarkable for want of preei>in. The criterion 

 proposed by the late Mr. Dailies Harrington, in 



the Philosophical TraBaactiooi, ha-* b (( n a.lnpnd 



by mod tic writers, and con>i>t- in the 



comparatiu' length of the hind Ict^s withtl, 



