THE RABBIT. 



Generic Characters. 

 Two cutting teeth in each jaw- 

 Ears long, tail fhort. 

 Five toes before, four behind. 



Synonims. 



Cuniculus, Plin. lib. viii. c. 55. Gefner Quad. 362. 

 Leptjs Cuniculus, Linn. Syjt. 77. 

 Kanin, Faun Suec. No. 26. 

 Lepus Caudatus, Briffbn Quad. 95. 

 Lepusculus, Kaninchen, Klein Quad. 52. 

 Le Lapin, de Buffon, vi. 303. tab. 1. li. 

 Rabbet, or Coney, Rail Syn. Quad. 205. Pennant's 

 Brit. Zool. i. 90. 



THE Rabbit, though not originally a native of Britain, is become fo 

 completely naturalized, and fo well and univerfally known, that a particular 

 defcription of it feems unneceffary. In its external appearance it much 

 refembles the Hare ; but it differs materially from that animal in its habits, 

 and, notwithstanding their fimilitude, they cannot be brought to alTociate, 

 and fometimes will fight till one of them is difabled or killed. 



That great naturalift, Pliny, has judicioufly remarked, that thofe animals 

 which are the mofl innocent, and of the greater! fervice to man, particularly 

 in the article of food, are generally the moil prolific : this obfervation is in 

 no inflance more clearly verified than in the Rabbit : it produces feven times 

 in the year, and often brings eight young ones at a birth ; on a fuppofition, 



