THE HIMALAYAN RABBIT 81 



" In shape, they should be compact, and snug looking 

 when at repose, showing a graceful appearance of elonga- 

 tion when in action. 



" I prefer them without dewlap but I would not 

 deduct more than two points on that account. 



" Many kinds of nostrums are prescribed for the 

 attainment and preservation of colour on the points, but 

 I have little belief in or sympathy with any of them, 

 being quite sure from experience that a recourse to 

 natural means, with a view to their general health, will 

 attain the desired object, besides saving a great amount 

 of trouble and expense. 



" Light should not be excluded from the feeding hutch, 

 but on the sun's side the glass should be frosted to 

 protect them from the rays of the mid-day sun, which are 

 always detrimental to colour. 



<c I have always found that by providing a movable 

 hutch for feeding in, with open back, placing it against 

 a sandbank or hill of dry earth or shingle, allowing them 

 to burrow for themselves, and removing all loose rubbish 

 as it accumulated, they kept their colour much better 

 than by any other means. 



" But if such bank be not available, it is very easy to 

 provide one by piling a quantity of roots (of trees) and 

 gnarled branches in a corner of a room or shed, filling the 

 interstices with soil and sand, or by filling a large sugar- 

 tub in the same manner, providing holes at the bottom 

 for their admission. 



" With such provision the rabbits will spend most of 

 their time in the burrows, only coming out at the regular 



