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little rugas in either, excepting at the beginning of common, where they 

 are longitudinal. Two ora tincae, as in a rabbit ; or [it may be said] 

 that the horns open separately into the vagina : they are thrown into 

 longitudinal rugae at their terminations, which are pretty strong ; and 

 the two horns are united as far as there are rugas. The horns are veiy 

 long ; the capsula ovarii does not cover the ovarium : the Fallopian 

 tube runs upon it and opens upon the most distant end of the edge. 

 The ovaria are very large ; very much of the shape of the testicles, but 

 more oval, the end next the uterus being largest, and the most distant 

 end is bent in towards the termination of the edge of the capsula 

 ovarii, and is studded with little transparent bodies. 



The external parts of generation, and the external parts of the anus 

 of a doe-hare, are much the same with those of a doe-rabbit : the 

 differences are, in the hare, the gland at the side of the vagina is larger 

 than in the rabbit ; the cavity at the side of the gland is more circum- 

 scribed, and at a greater distance from the mouth of the vagina than in 

 the rabbit ; and the surface of the skin that surrounds these parts which 

 is not covered with hair is broader than in the rabbit. 



Hares and rabbits never use their hind legs alternately, but both 

 together ; this arises from the great disproportion between the length 

 of the fore and hind legs, for the fore legs are only used to catch the 

 body when it falls, but the hind are used to give the body the spring 

 forwards. 



The White Hare, from Norway, given to me by Dr. Solander, 

 in April, 1780 \_Lepus variabilis, Pallas]. 



The external shape and proportions were nearly, if not wholly, 

 those of the common hare of England. 



The stomach is pretty full, therefore it gives us much the shape of 

 that of the common hare ; it had a kind of stricture in the middle, as 

 it were, attempting to divide it into two cavities. Towards the pylorus 



observing : — " On ne distingue le commencement du corps de la matrice, qu'en ce que 

 ses parois sont beaucoup plus epaisses, dans les liases pleines, que les parois du vagin ; 

 on reconnoit, par cette signe, que le vagin fin it, et que le corps de la matrice commence 

 im peu au dela de l'orifice de l'uretre ; " and in his measurements he makes the 

 Corpus Uteri 2 inches, 6 lines. Buffon. — Hist. Nat. torn. vii. p. 281. And yet he 

 seems unconsciously to admit its non-resemblance to an uterus by observing, when 

 upon the same parts in the rabbit, "Chaque corne avancoit dans le vagin de deux 

 lignes de longueur." — lb. p. 326. 



And again speaking of the ora tincae he observes that in a doe rabbit ready to bring 

 forth, — "Les orifices des cornes de la matrice commencaient a se dilater pour 

 1'accouchement, comme l'orifice interne de la matrice se ddate en pared cas dans 

 la plupart des autres animaux." — lb. p. 327.] 



