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28. Lepus timidus (Linn). Hare. 
Common. In Mr. Stevenson’s notes several instances of the 
occurrence of a very beautiful variety of the Common Hare, with 
“ fur like chinchilla,” at Burnham Thorpe are recorded. As these 
notes occur in 1859, 1864, and again in 1866, it would seem to 
indicate something like a permanent variety in that locality. Mr. 
F. Horgate also mentions a similar variety, “ light grey, very like 
tlie Alpine Hare in the transition state from summer to winter 
coat,” as having been met with at Great Witchingham and West 
Le.\ham. He has also seen a hare with a black back at Sparham, 
and Mr. Gurney mentions a still more remarkable variety, perfectly 
black, killed at Denham, in Suffolk : (Tran. N. ^ N. Nat. Soc. 
1869 — 70, p. 26.) Parti-coloured varieties are occasionally met 
with. 
29. Lepus cuniculus (Linn). Kabbit. 
Very common. A beautiful variety known as the Silver Sprig 
has long been established in some localities, particularly on 
Thetford warren ; black varieties also occur, and ^Ir. Gurney shot 
a rabbit on Corton Denes, Lowestoft, Avhich was decorated with 
alternate black and grey markings like a Cyprus cat. 
30. BALiENA MYSTICETUS (Liuii). Eight Whale. 
Messrs. Paget mention “a small one taken near Yarmouth, July 
8th, 1784.” In an editorial note to Sir Thomas Browne’s “Account 
of Fishes, &c. found in Horfolk and on the coast,” (Wilkin's 
Edition, 1835, vol. 4, p. 326,) it is stated, a whale, (species not 
given,) fifty-eight feet long, was cast ashore at Overstrand about 
1822, and another went spouting past Cromer in the autumn of 
the same year. 
31. Physalus antiquorum (Gray). Razor-back Common Fin 
Whale. 
Messrs. Paget say — “ Bala;na physalis, fin- backed whale, has 
several times been seen and taken in herring nets.” 
1842, August 27th. One was taken in the Estuary of the 
Ouse, near Lynn, which measured forty-two feet in length. 
1851, January 25th. Another taken in the same place 
measured eighteen feet. (Qy. Balaenoptera rostrata.) 
