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RABBET. 



Class I. 



This is its summer's dress ; in winter it en- 

 tirely changes to a snowy whiteness except the 

 edges and tips of the ears which retain their 

 blackness. The alteration of color begins in 

 September, and first appears about the neck and 

 rump ; in April it again resumes its grey coat. 

 This is the case in Styria,^ but in the polar 

 tracts such as Greenland it never varies from 

 white, the eternal color of the country. In the 

 intermediate climates between temperate and 

 frigid, such as Scotktnd and Scandinavia, it re- 

 gularly experiences these vicissitudes of color. 



22. Rabbet. Cuniculus. The Rabbet or 

 Cony. Rail syn. quad. 205. 



Meyers an. i. Tah. 83. 



Gesner quad. 362. 



Lepus caudatus, obscure cinere- 

 us. Brisson quad. g5. 



De Buffon Tom. vi. 303. Tab. 

 50,51. 



Brii. Cwningen 



Fren. Le Lapin 



lial. Coniglio 



Span. Conejo 



Port. Coelho 



Lepus Cuniculus. Gjji. Lin. 



163. 

 Lepus Cauda brevissima pa- 



pillls rubris. Faun. Suec. 



26. 

 Cuniculus terrain fodiens ; 



Klein quad. 52. 

 Br. Zool. 43. Hist. quad. ii. 



iS"o. 302. p. 103. 



Ger. Koniglein, Kaninchia 



Dut. Konyn 



Sived. Kanin 



Dan. Kanine. 



J.T is well observed by Pliny, that nature 'hath 

 ' shewed great kindness, in causing those things 



* Kramer Austr. 315- 



