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HARE. 



Class I. 



Sect. II. 



GENUS XII. HARE. 



Teeth cutting two in each jaw, very distant 



from the grinders. 

 Usually herbivorous, frugivorous. 

 Toes, five before, four behind. 

 Ears long. 

 Tail short. 



20* COMMON. Lepus. Plinii, lib. viii. c. 55. De Buff on, Tom, vi. 246. 



The Hare. Rati syn. quad. 204. Tab. 38. 



White Hare. Mort. Northampt. Lepus timidus. Gm. Lin. 77. 



445. Lepus cauda abrupta pupillis 



Sib. Scol. 11. atris. Faun. Suec.35. 



Meyer's an. ii. Tab. 32. Lepus vulgaris cinereus. 



Gesner quad. 605. Klein, quad. 51. 



Lepus caudatus ex cinereo rufus. Br. Zool. 41 . Hist. quad. No. 



Brisson quad. 94. 299. ii. p. 98. Arct. Zool. 



i. 112. 



Brit. 



Ysgyfamog, Ceinach 



Germ. 



Has, Haas 



Fren. 



Le Lievre 



Dut. 



Haas 



Itaf. 



Lepre, Lievora 



Swed. 



Hare 



Span. 



Liebre 



Dan. 



Hare. 



Port. 



Lebre 







_L O enter on a minute description of so well 

 known an animal, would be to abuse the reader's 

 patience, yet to neglect all notice of the admir- 

 able contrivance of its several properties and 



