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and space about the rump is of the same colour. 

 It is entirely destitute of a tail. 



CALLING HARE. 



Lepus PusIUus. L. ecaudatus, fusco griseoque mixtus, auricuUs 

 subtriangulis, albo marginatis. Lin. Syst, Nat. GmeL 164. 

 Fall Glir. p. 31. t, i. 



Tailless grey-brown Hare, with subtriangular ears edged with 

 white. 



Calling Hare. Pennant Quadr, 2. p. iii. 



In its form this species extremely resembles the 

 Ogotona hare, but is smaller, measuring near six 

 inches, but weighing only from three ounces and 

 a quarter to four and half, and in winter two and 

 a half. The head is somewhat longer than is usual 

 in this genus, and thickly covered with fur even to 

 the tip of the nose : the ears are large and round- 

 ed ; the legs very short ; the feet furred beneath ; 

 and the fur on the whole animal is very soft, long, 

 smooth, and of a brownish lead-colour, with the 

 hairs tipped with black : on the sides of the body 

 a yellowish tinge prevails. It is an inhabitant of 

 the south-east parts of Russia, and about all the 

 ridge of hills spreading southward from the Ui^al- 

 lian chain ; as well as about the Irtish^ and the 

 west part of the Altaic chain. It is an animal of a 

 solitary disposition, and is very rarely to be seen, 

 even in places it most frequents. It commonly 

 chuses its residence in some dry gentle declivity, 

 where the turf is firm and covered with bushes^ 



