28a MAMMALIA. GLIRES. Hare. 



Inhabit naturally the warmer parts of Europe, Afisj :-nd Africa; are not natives of Britain, but have 

 for ages been here in great numbers, both wild and tame. -Dwells principally in dry fandy foils, in 

 which it forms long winding burrows ; it keeps in thefe holes in the middle of the clay, and goes out 

 in the evening, night, and morning, in queft of food ; feeds upon all kinds of green vegetables and 

 grain ; its flefli is white and much elteemed, efpecially that of fuch wild ones as feed on juni- 

 per. The female breeds fix or feven times a year, going thirty or thirty-one days with young, and 

 brings from four to eight at a litter ; they come to their full fize in fix months, and live about eight 

 or nine years ; the male is very falacious, and is apt to deftroy the young ones: They are preyed on 

 by hawks, badgers, and polecats, and are caught by means of terriers, nets, arid ferrets. Numbers 

 are bred in a wild ftate in places fet apart for the purpofe, called warrens ; and great numbers are 

 bred in houfes in a domeftic ftate. The Rabbit is confidemo'y fmaller than the. Hare, being fcarcely 

 eighteen inches long ; the ears are fhorter than the body; the wild variety is of a brown a£h colour, 

 having the upper part of the tail black, and the under part white. The fur of the iiivery variety is 

 valuable. 



Qia io. Hooded Rabbit. — Lepus faccatus. 



Has a double fold of the fkin behind the head, and ano'hei under the throat. Syft. nat. ed. 

 Gmel. 165. n. 2. <T. 



Hooded Rabbit, or Ruffian Rabbit. Perm. hift. of quad. n. 244. y. pi. xl. f. 2. — Lepus cunicu- 

 lus rufficus. Syft. nat. ed. Gmel. i. 164. n. 2. £. 



Its place unknown. — This animal is defcribed by Mr Pennant from a drawing in the Britifh Mu- 

 fetim. by Mr Edwards, and is called by him a Ruffian Rabbit, but it is unknown in that empire. It 

 is of an afh colour with brown head and ears ; the fold of the fkin behind the head admits of the 

 head being drawn back and Concealed within it, and there are two holes in the fold for the eyes ; 

 that below the throat receives the fore feet occafionally. 



Q l r 11. Angora Rabbit. — Lepus fericeus. 



Is covered with long, waved, filky hair. Schreber, iv. t. cexxxvi. C. 



Lepus cuniculus angorenfis, or Rabbit of Angora, having a tail, and covered with very fine and 

 long hair. BrhT. quad. 141. n. 6. Syft. nat. ed. Gmel. 163. n. 2. y. — Angora Rabbit. Penn. hift. 

 of quad. n. 244. /3. — Lapin d' Angora, or Angora Rabbit. Sm. Buff. iv. pi. lxii. and lxiii. 



Inhabits Angora, in Afia Minor. — This is an exceedingly beautiful animal on account of its fine, 

 white, filky fur, which is a valuable article in commerce. It is a very iingular circumftance, which 

 cannot be at all accounted for, that this animal the Rabbit, the Cat of Angora, already defcribed, 

 and the Goat of the fame place, to be defcribed hereafter, are all adorned with a fimilar filky clo- 

 thing of long fine hair. 



** Having no tails. 



£16 12. Brafilian Hare. — 9. Lepus brafilienfts, 4. 



Has very large ears, no tail, and, for the mod part, a white ring or collar round the 



neck, Pallas, Glir. 30. 



Lepus 



