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OGOTONA HARE. 
also resembles in colour. The fur on all parts ex- 
cept the tail was soft, and is used by the Peruvians 
for the fabric of garments worn only by persons 
of distinc tion. In its manners,, this animal resem- 
bles the rabbit, burrowing under ground, and 
forming a double mansion ; in the upper of which 
it deposits its provisions, and sleeps in the other. 
It appears chiefly by night, and is said to defend 
itself when attacked by striking with its tail. 
Ogotona hare. 
The ogotona hare has oblong oval ears, a little 
rounded ; shorter whiskers than the Alpine hare ; 
fur long and smooth ; light grey in the mid- 
dle ; white at the ends, intermixed with a few 
dusky hairs ; with a yellowish spot on the nose ; 
and a space about the rump of the same colour. 
Its limbs also are yellowish on the outsides, and 
its belly white. It is only about six inches long* 
The male weighs from six ounces and a half, to 
seven and a quarter ; the female from four, to 
four and three quarters. It inhabits Tartary, and 
lives in the open vallies, and on gravelly or rocky 
naked mountains, under heaps of stones ; but in a 
sandy soil they burrow, leaving two or three en- 
trances. Their holes run obliquely ; in these they 
make their nests of short grass. They wander out 
chiefly in the night. Their voice is excessively 
shrill, in a note like that of a sparrow, twice or 
thrice repeated, but very easily to be distinguished 
from that of the Alpine hare. They are fond of 
the bark of a sort of service tree, and of the dwarf 
elm. Before the approach of severe cold, they col- 
lect great quantities of herbs, and fill their holes 
with them. Directed by the same instinct as the 
Alpine hare, they form, in autumn, their ricks of 
hay, of a hemispherical form, about a foot high 
