MAMMALIA. GLIRES. Lepus. 
Canadevfis Toes 4 before, 5 behind ; tail covered with briftles, Io 4 
than the body. 
Inhabits coldeft parts of CiifaJa, fize of a fmall niouli;; 
quents /hrubby places ; aAlve, caiwht with difiicultv. .. 
.tiorfy above forrugmous; paler, throat, belly' Mid f 
white; brifila on the nofe relkaed ; tail taper, aiinu'^' 
v.-ith black, Linti. ir.anf. 4. 1^^. tab. 8, 
32. LpPUS. .fore-teeth 2, upper floubJ^' 
the interior ones lefs. 
Thefe are tiniid ; live on vegetable food ; run by 3 kia'^ 
leap ; toes 5 before, 4 behind. 
A, tFilh tails, 
Ysfcaccia. fail long, briftly. Peruvian 
Inhabits colder parts of* Peru and Ckili j digs Iioles under 
sv'ith tevo chambers, in one of which it lleeps, and ftecb 
the other ; coliecls food in the night; defends itlclf by 
tail, piobably by fcattering urine in the eves of its eneio''^*' 
flcfli white, tender; fur very loft, fine, formerly woven 
cloth for the Iqcas of Peru. 
*Timidus. Tail fhorti cars black at the tip, longer than the head- 
\%T- c e Common 
2- With horns: (probably fabulous.) 
3- Body llraw-colour. 
Inhabits Ferjia, Afia, and America j unarmed, tiif''''' 
of exquiilte fight and hearing, ciuick in flight efpecially 
hill ; runs in a circular direction when hunted, which cf 
it gradually lelTens, and doubling back parallel to its p®, ! 
makes a long leap at the turn to break oil' the feent from ' 
purfuers ; feeds by night on the flioots of young fhrubs, ba’’') 
ot young tree? and wgetables ; is hunted by dogs, cats f . 
hawks ; fond of the round of a drum ; iufeftccl by Ileas ; . 
fetid; breeds often ; gfavid 30 days ; brings a 1 youi’li’ ' 
p feet long. ° ^ 
large, placed much outwards, by which if Is able fee 
behind, provided with a iiiftitant membrane, open 
aheep; c/„,,j white; noftnls humid, moveable; upper f , 
cleft; hair above white at the balb, black in the iliiJ^'K' 
tawny at the tip, beneath white ; throat and breafi taW»/i I 
tun; above black, beneath white; hind-thighs thick; f ' 
■woolly ; a cavity on each fide the region of the pubes. ‘ 
