MAMMALIA. GLIRES. Hare. 281 



608 8. Cape Hare. — 8. Lepus capenfis. 3. 



The tail is bufhy, and as long as the head ; and the feet are red. Penn. hift. of quad. 

 n. 246. J. Burmannus. 



Inhabits the country three days journey north from the Cape of Good Hope. — Dwells in the fif- 

 fures of rocks, and does not burrow : The ears are long, dilated in the middle, the outrides being 

 naked and rofe coloured, the infides and edges covered with fhort grey hairs; the crown of the head 

 and the back are of a mixed duiky and tawny colour ; the cheeks and fides are afh coloured ; the 

 breaft, belly, and legs, are ruft coloured ; the tail, which is buihy and carried upwards, is of a red- 

 difh or pale rufty colour. This animal is about the fize of a Rabbit, and is probably the fame that 

 is mentioned by Adanfon as found in Guinea, which he fays is fmaller than the common kind, is of 

 a colour between that of the Hare and Rabbit, and has white flefh. 



9. Common Rabbit. — 7. Lepus Cuniculus. 2. 



Has a very fhort tail almofl of the fame colour with the body ; the ears are black at 

 the points; and the hind legs are fhorter than the body. Pallas, Glir. 30. Erxleb. mam. 

 331. n. 3. Schreber, iv. t. ccxxxvi. A. 



Lepus Cuniculus, or Rabbit, with a very fhort tail, and naked ears. Syft. nat. ed. xii. i. 77. — 

 With a fhort tail and red pupils of the eyes. Syft. nat. ed. ii. 46. D°. ed. vi. 9. n. 3. Muf. ad. Fr. 

 i. 9. — Of a dufky grey colour. BrifT. reg. anim. 140. n. 4. — Cuniculus. Pliny, viii. c. 29. 55. 58. 

 Aldrov. dig. 382. f. p. 385. Agric. an. fubt. 16. Gefn. quad. 394. Jonft. quad. 161. t. 65. Raj. 

 quad. 205. — Kunin. Faun. Suec. n. 26. — Lapin fauvage, or Wild Rabbit. Sm. Buff. iv. 155. 

 pi. lix. — Rabbit. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 244. Brit. zool. i. 90. — The anatomy. Perv. obf. 10. 



609 a. Wild Rabbit. — L. Cuniculus ferus.. 

 Of a brownifh grey colour.. 



g 10 /3. Black tame Rabbit. — L. Cun. domejlicus niger. 



Of an uniform black colour. 



61 1 y> White tame Rabbit. — L. Cun. domejlicus albus. 



Of an uniform white colour, with fiery red eyes. 



G 12 J\ Pied tame Rabbii — L. Cun. domejlicus variegatus. 



Of a pied or mottled black and white colour. Sm. Buff. iv. 155. pi. ix. 



3 g. Silvery ta-' e Kabbit. — L Cun. domejlicus argent eus.- 



Of a filvery grey or afh colour, with tnwny feet. Briff. reg. an. 191. 



Silver-haired Rabbit, Sm. Buff. iv. pi. ixi. 

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