NATURALISTS CABIN F.T. 



Harmless disposition. 



brown, perfectly like the wild or warren rabbit 

 and he has no tail. His belly is white from the 

 point of the lower jaw, to where his tail would 

 I>rgin, if he had one. All over his body he has 

 scattered hairs, strong and polished like his mus- 

 tachoes; these are for the most part two inches 

 and a quarter in length. His ears are round, 

 not pointed. He makes no noise that ever I 

 heard, but certainly ehews the cud. To discover 

 this was the principal reason of my keeping him 

 alive. Those with whom he is acquainted he 

 follows with great assiduity. The arrival of any 

 living creature, even of a bird, makes him seek 

 for a hiding-place ; and I shut him up in a cage, 

 with a small chicken, after omitting to feed him 

 a whole day : the next morning the chicken was 

 unhurt, though he came to me, with great signs 

 of having suffered with hunger. I likewise made 

 a second experiment, by enclosing two smaller 

 birds with him for the space of several weeks; 

 neither were these hurt, though both of them 

 fed, without impediment, upon the meat that was 

 thrown into his cage, and the smallest of these, 

 a titmouse, seemed to be advancing in a sort of 

 familiarity with him, though I never saw it ven- 

 ture to perch upon him, yet it would eat fre- 

 quently, and at the same time, of the food upon- 

 which he was feeding; and in this consisted 

 chiefly the familiarity I speak of, for he never 

 showed any alteration of behaviour upon the rjre- 

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