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Kent as the "stub-rabbit"-/ the other is called the "bush 

 rabbit " in Ireland,^ as well as in other localities — for instance, 

 in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, and Surrey.* 



A rabbit-warren presents towards evening a curious and 

 not uninteresting spectacle. The ground everywhere pierced 



Feet — > Z ^ 6 8 



Fig. 39.— Plan of a portion of a second Burrow partially excavated at 

 Cappagh, Co. Waterford, by permission of R. J. Ussher, December 1911. 



From a sketch by G. E. H. B.-H. 



with deep and tortuous holes, the absence of all esculent 

 vegetation for some distance round, and the playful gambols 

 and rapid retreat of the inhabitants, as they either sport in 

 security or fly from the approach of danger, are circumstances 

 which at once indicate the peculiar habits of the species and 

 present a lively and amusing scene. 



' Rev. G. F. Dawson, Zoologist, 1845, 903 ; see also 969. 

 2 William Thompson. ^ l. e. Adams. 



