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The hair is everywhere plumbeous at base, and the following 
description applies only to the outer portion of the hairs. 
On the chin, on the lower edge of the upper lip, on the belly and 
breast, and on the most of the inside of the thighs and on the under 
side of the tail the hair is white. On the upper parts in general, the 
finer, shorter hairs are tipped with a pale chestnut. The longer hairs 
usually have a band of black followed by one of cinnamon, and, 
finally, a black tip (often lacking), the general effect produced being 
a mottled black and cinnamon. This is characteristic of the top of 
the head, the side of the shoulders, and the back. On side of head, 
cheek, and over rump and upper part of outside of thigh the cinria- 
mon band is lacking, being replaced by a soiled creamy white, and 
the general color is gray. The hairs on the nape, and backward over 
the shoulder are cinnamon-color, varying to vinous cinnamon. The 
outside of the front leg, a spot just in front of the groin, and the back 
part of the thigh are also cinnamon. From the spot in front of the 
groin an ill-defined band of pale vinaceous cinnamon extends along 
inside of the thigh to the heel. The front edge and tip of the ears 
outside are black, the rest being cinnamon-gray. The inside of the 
ear is white at the tip. The margin is also white except the lower 
outer portion, which is gray. Above the eye is a grayish spot. In 
some specimens the neck is encircled by a broad grayish cinnamon 
collar, which is quite clearly defined, especially below, by the white 
of the breast. 
The chief variations from the description are as follows: (1) 
The collar just mentioned may be very obscure. (2) In about half 
of the specimens there is a trace of a white spot between the eyes, 
and this, when present, may be quite conspicuous, or 1t may be 
represented by half a dozen white hairs. (3) The inside of the 
thighs is sometimes flushed with buff; and (4) the rump and upper 
part of tail at the base may be more or less cinnamon. 
Estimated by bulk or weight, rabbits undoubtedly represent 
more mammalian life than any other wild animal in the county, 
and they are found in every part of it—prairie or wooded bluff or 
flood-plain. They are now the chief reliance of our sportsmen in 
the fall, and many hundreds of them are killed within a few miles of 
Champaign and Urbana. Their persistence in spite of furious per- 
secution is really remarkable. They are found within these city 
limits at all times of the year, but appear especially abundant in the 
