212 LEPOMD^E. 



RODENTIA. LEPORID/F.. 



Fig. 81. 



Nat. size. Kent's Hole. 



LEPUS CUNICULUS. Rabbit. 



Rabbit, BUCKLAND, Reliquiae Diluvianse, p. 19, pi. x. xi. 



Lapin des cavemes, CUVIER, Ossemens Fossiles, v. pi. i. p. 55. 



OF this smaller species of the Hare tribe portions of the 

 jaws, teeth, and bones of the extremities, have been found 

 fossil in the cave at Kirkdale, in Rentes Hole, and in the 

 cave at Berry Head, Torquay ; they closely accord with 

 the corresponding parts in the existing wild Rabbit. 



The specimen figured is the right ramus of the lower 

 jaw of a young individual, from Kent's Hole ; it is now in 

 the British Museum. 



Bones of the Rabbit form part of the osseous breccia of 

 Corsica. MM. Serres, Dubreuil, and Jean- Jean,* de- 

 scribe and figure the fossil remains of two varieties of the 

 Lepus cuniculus, which they discovered in the caverns at 

 Lunel-Viel. 



* Recherches sur les Ossemens Humatiles des Cavernes de Lunel-Viel, 4 to, 

 1839, p. 130, pi. x. 



