VaR Y I N-G?T EMAAVE. 
The Greenlanders eat the flefh dreffed, and the contents of the 
ftomach raw. ‘They ufe the excrements for wick for their lamps ; 
and cloath their children with the foft and warm fkins. 
This fpecies abounds from Livonia to the north-eaft part of Sidiria 
and Kamt/chatka ; and from Archangel to Saratof, on the banks of the 
Wolga, in eaft lat. 49. 52, and even farther into the Orenburg govern- 
ment. In Sibiria they quit the lofty mountains, the fouthern boun- 
daries of that country, and, colleGting in flocks innumerable, at ap- 
proach of winter migrate to the plains, and northern wooded parts, 
where vegetation and food abound. Mr. Be// met with them daily 
in their progrefs*. Multitudes of them are taken in toils by the 
country people, not for the fake of the flefh, but the fkins ; which are 
fent to Peterfourg, and from thence exported to various parts. 
American Hare, Pd. Tranf. ixii. 4. 376. Hif?. Quad. N° 243. 
ARE. With ears tipt with grey: neck and body rufty, cine- 
reous, and black: legs pale ruft color: belly white: tail black 
above, white beneath. 
The diftinétions between this and the common Hares and varying 
Hares are thefe :—They are lefs, weighing only from three pounds 
eight ounces to four pounds and a half: the length to the fetting-on of 
the tail only nineteen inches. The hind legs are longer in proportion 
than thofe of the common Hare or varying Hare; the length of this, 
from the nofe to the tip of the hind legs, extended, being two feet 
five: of a varying Hare, meafured at the fame time, in Hud/on’s Bay, 
wonly two feet feven and ahalf; but from the nofe to the tail was two 
feet: its weight feven pounds fix ounces. 
® Travels, oftavo ed, i. 246. 
Thefe 
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38. AMERICANe 
Size: 
OF A VARYING, 
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