5 8 |kto=(£nglant>s Parities. 



of an Oak blown up by the roots, with an Arrow, not far 

 from Cape Anne, and fold the Skin to the EngliJIi. But 

 to fay fomething of the Jaccal, they are ordinarily lefs 

 than Foxes, of the colour of a gray Rabbet, and do not 

 fcent nothing near fo ftrong as a Fox; some of the In- 

 dians will eat of them : Their Greafe is good for all that 

 Fox Greafe is good for, but weaker; they are very numer- 

 ous. 



The Hare} 



The Hare in New -England is no bigger than our 

 EngliJIi Rabbets, of the fame colour, but withall having 

 yellow and black ftrokes down the ribs; in Winter they 

 are milk white, and as the Spring approacheth they come 

 to their colour; when the Snow lies upon the ground 

 they are very bitter with feeding upon the bark of Spruce, 

 and the like. 2 



sure it is that there be lions on that continent; for the Virginians saw an old lion 

 in their plantation," &c. — New-Eng. ProspeH, I. c. The animal here spoken of 

 may well have been the puma or cougar, or American lion. 



1 "'The rabbits be much like ours in England. The hares be some of them 

 white, and a yard long. These two harmless creatures are glad to shelter them- 

 selves from the harmful foxes in hollow trees; having a hole at the entrance no 

 bigger than they can creep in at." — Wood, Nevj-E?ig. JProsJietS, I. c. Woodfe 

 rabbit and Josselyn's hare, so far as the summer coloring goes, appear to be the 

 gray rabbit (Lefus sylvaticus, Aud. and Bachm., 1. c. p. 173) ; arid the white hare 

 of Wood — as also, probably, the hare, "milk-white in winter," of Josselyn — is 

 doubtless the northern hare {Lcfius Americanus, Erxl., Aud. and Bachm., /. c, 



P- 93)- 



- The Voyages mention, beside the quadrupeds above named, also the skunk 

 (stgankoo of Rasles' DicT:., /. c.) ; the musquash {nioosltooessoo of Rasles, /. c), for 



