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five everywhere, are formed each of two vertical 

 laminae stuck together, and in the upper jaw is found 

 a sixth, simple and very small. They have five toes 

 before, and four behind ; an enormous caecum five 

 or six times as large as the stomach, and furnished 

 within with a spiral lamina which runs along its 

 whole length. The interior of their mouth, and the 

 under part of the feet have hair like the rest of the 

 body. 



Hares, properly speaking, (L-~pu*> Cuv.) 



Have long ears ; a short tail ; the hind feet longest ; 

 imperfect clavicles ; the space under the orbits 

 reticulated in the skeleton. 



The species are numerous, and so similar to one 

 another as to make it difficult to characterize them. 



The Common Hare, (Lepus Timidus, L.) Buff. VII. 



XXXVIII. 



Of a yellowish gray ; the ears one sixth longer 

 than the head, ashy behind, black at the point ; 

 tail as long as the thighs, white, with a black 

 line above. 



Every body knows this animal, whose dark 

 flesh is good as food, and whose fur is useful. It 

 lives isolated, does not burrow, sleeps on the 

 flat ground. When hunted it describes a large 

 circle in running, and has never yet been do- 

 mesticated. 



