21 LEPORID,E. 



PODENTTA. LEPOEIDM. 



Fig. 80. 



Nat. size. Kent's Hole. 



LEPUS TIMIDUS. Hare. 



Hare., or very large rabbit, BUCKLAND, Reliquiae Diluvianae, pp. 1.9, 267, 



pi. 13, fig. 8. 

 Lievre des cavernes, CUVIER, Ossemens Fossiles, torn, v. pt. i. p. 55 



THE land that could grow vegetation sufficient for the 

 sustenance of colossal Mammoths, ponderous Rhinoceroses, 

 and huge species of Deer and Oxen, may well be supposed 

 to have afforded an abundant table for the smaller grami- 

 nivorous quadrupeds, as the Hares and Rabbits ; and it 

 would seem that these, like the weakest species of the 

 pliocene Carnivora, have survived and escaped those exter- 

 minating influences to which the gigantic quadrupeds have 

 succumbed. 



Dr. Buckland makes mention of "the jaw of a Hare, and 

 a few teeth and bones of Rabbits and Mice, amongst the 

 fossils of the Kirkdale Cave, 11 and has given excellent figures 

 of them in the ' Reliquiae Diluvianse.' Cuvier notices these 

 illustrations of the fossil Leporida, in his great work. The 

 heel-bone (calcaneum) figured in PI. x. fig. 14, of the 



