The third and laft is, that the flefh of the Bab- 
bit is more white when dreffed ; which diftin&ion 
is always to be found between the European Hare 
and Rabbit, but it does not often happen that one 
can drefs the flefh of an animal which comes from 
another part of the globe ; it is therefore a crite- 
rion we can feldom have recourfe to. 
Linnteus , thus defcribes the Rabbit in his Fauna 
Suecica. (Art. Lepus). 
Lepus Cani cuius, cauda abbreviata, AuriculisNudatis. 
Lepus cauda brevifjima , pupillis rubris. 
With regard to the firft circumftance of the Cauda 
abbreviata, he equally applies it to the Hare in his 
Syftema Naturae, publifhed in 1766, and drops the 
Cauda breviflima of the Fauna Suecica; where in 
propriety the Rabbit should not have found a place, 
as it is not indigenous in Sweden, the climate be- 
ing too cold for it. 
Linnaeus therefore could only have defcribed from 
a tame Rabbit, which I fuppole had balder Ears by 
fome accident than common, as his next criterion 
is Auriculis Nudatis, 
I have examined lately a great number of Rab- 
bits, and do not find that their ears are balder than 
thofe of a Hare : this fecond circumftance therefore 
eftablifhes no fpecific difference. 
From the third and laft particular which this great 
Naturalift relies upon, I am alfo convinced that the 
Specimen before him was not only a tame Rabbit, 
but that its fur was either white or carroty, becaufe 
Rabbits of thefe colours only have red pupils [c]. 
[c] I have examined a great number of Rabbits thus coloured, 
^vhich commonly have red pupils, though I have feen fome 
I find 
