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ii. American Hare, called Rabbit at Hudfon’s 
Bay. Kalm’s Trav. into N. Amer. I. 105. II. 45. 
Severn and Churchill Rivers. 
This fpecies, which has been improperly called 
Rabbit, perhaps becaufe it is lefs than the 
hare, is certainly new, and was never de- 
fcribed before, except by Kalm in his 
travels through North America, Vol. I. 
105. II. 45. The account he there gives 
correfponds with that of Mr. Graham, 
and with the fpecimen now in the Royal 
Society’s colle&ion. Thefe animals are nu- 
merous at Hudfon’s Bay ; they do not bur- 
row under ground, but live fummerand win- 
ter under windfalls and roots of trees. They 
do not migrate, but always keep about the 
fame place, unlefs dillurbed. They breed 
once or twice a year, and have five to feven 
young at a time : their weight is from 3 to 
4I pounds. Their fiefh is not fo white and 
delicate as that of the common rabbit, but 
vet is good food in fummer and winter. Great 
numbers of them are annually caught in the 
following manner : as they always are ufed 
to go one particular path, the Englifh and 
natives lay young trees acrofs it, forming a 
hedge, in which there is an opening for the 
creature to go through 5 in this place they fix 
a fnare, made of brafs wire, packthread, or 
the like, fattened with a flipping knot to a 
crofs piece, the end being tied to an elaftic 
pole ; fo that when the animal puts its head 
