RABBET. £07 



has observed, becomes clotted and tangled here 

 and therC;, as in a specimen figured in Buffon, 

 where a mass of the fur hangs down on one side 

 in such a manner as to resemble an additional 

 leg. Edwards's drawing above mentioned is called, 

 in the memorandum annexed to it, A Rabbet fi^om 

 Moscovy, and is described as follows : 



This Rabbit is about the bigness of our 

 largest tame Rabbits in England. It has a 

 double skin all over the back, so that it can roll 

 itself up in a round form, putting its head under 

 the upper skin, and its feet into a pouch under 

 the throat. It has also a flap of thick wool which 

 it places its feet upon when it sits. It has a small 

 hole in the skin on the back, which gives light 

 to the eye when the head is under the skin. It 

 was shewn to the Royal Society of London in the 

 year 1736, and acknowledged to be natural." 



In the same volume of drawings is a figure of 

 the skin itself, which is evidently no other than 

 the ragged spoil of some long-haired Rabbet ; the 

 head and feet in the preceding figure (which re- 

 presents the animal in its supposed complete state) 

 being evidently added by Edwards and coloured 

 brown, like those of a common Rabbet, though 

 the enveloping skin itself is white. 



