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2«. Alpine. Tour in Scotlamf, 2d ed. Ph. Tr. 4, vii. />. 343. Sy>i quad. 



No. 184. 

 ]£r. maigbeacb ^heal^ inatgheach mhonat. 



INhabits the fummlts of the higheft high- 

 land hills, along with the Ptarmigans. 

 Is lefs than the common hare, of a gre) er 

 color, or l^fs ferruginous : a bad runner ; 

 often flops fuddenly m the midil of its 

 courfe : when purfued fhelters beneath the 

 Joofe ftones, or in clifi;s of rocks : never de- 

 fcends into the plains, or mixes with the 

 common hare, which is frequent at the bot- 

 toms of the fame hills. In Winter turns white, 

 the tips of the ears, excepted ; in Spring 

 refum^s it's grey coloi: ; the ears Ihortcr, the 

 hind feet longer, in proportion, than thofe 

 of the common hare ; t;he hair much longer 

 and thicker than in the latter, to prote6t it 

 againft the fe verity of the cold. 



* 

 ac. Rabbet. 



Br. Zocil. r. go. iv. tab. 47, ^d e^L No. 22. Syn. qiiady 



No, 186. 

 Er. Co'tnean. 



INhabits all the ifla^ids, even the rock of 

 Ailfa: found in the Orknies in myriads. 

 They caufe great fhifting of the fands, by- 

 burrowing in them ^ but the value of their 

 fkins (a great article of commerce there) 

 fcarce counterbalances the damage. This. 



animal,^ 



