228 T H E T O L A I, O R 



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 The TOLAI, or BAIKAL HARE*. 



THIS anima! is very common in the neio-h- 

 bourhood of Lake Baikal in Tartary. ir is 

 fomewhat larger than the rabbit, which it re- 

 femblcs in the figure of the body, the fur, the 

 gait, the colour, the tafte of the fieili, and the 

 habit of digging a retreat in the earth. Their 

 internal flrudure is likewiie the fame f ; and 

 there is no difference but in the length of the 

 tail, that of the tolai being confiderably longer. 



Hence 



* Baikal hare, with a tail fomewhat longer than that of a 

 rabbit ; fur of the colour of the common hare ; red about the 

 neck and teet ; tail black above, white beneath. It is larger. 

 Thau a rabljit, and inhabits the country beyond Lake Baikal ; 

 Pennani's fynopf. of quad. p. 253. 



Lepus c.iuila in fupina parte nigra, in prona alba j Brij:-.. 

 quad. p. 9y. 



-|- Cuniculus infigniter caudatus coloris leporini Circa 



internas partes haec obfervavi. Caecum colo paulo anguf- 

 tius erat, ied longius, utpote oi5lo pollicum longitudinem ae- 

 quans ; prope ilei infertionem caerultfcens, uigiti nsedii ca- 

 pax, fenfimque decrefcens, in extremitate vix calamum fcrip- 

 torium latitudine capit, colore ibidem albente gaudens. Oefo- 

 phagus uti in lepore ventriculum medium fubit. A Mongolis 

 Tolai dicitur, idemque nomen Ruffis etiam harum regionum 

 ufitatum eft ; Cmelin^ nov, coynmmt. Ac. Peirop, torn, 5. tab. 1 1 . 



