HARE. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Two cutting teeth in each jaw. 
Five toes before ; four behind. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Lepus timidus. L. cauda abbreviata, auriculis apice nigris, ca- 
pite longioribus. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 1 . 
p. 160. 
Tail very short ; ears longer than the head, and 
black at the ends. 
Lepus caudatus ex cinereo rufus. Briss. Quadr. 
94 . 
Common Hare. Sm. Buff. 4. p. 137- pb 62. Penn. Brit. Zool. 1. 
p. 98 . n. 20. Shaw Gen. Zool. pi. 102. Bew. 
Quadr. p. 337- 
This inoffensive creature is so perfectly well known to 
every body, that to give a particular description of it 
would be trifling with the reader ; indeed we should 
have omitted it entirely, but for the very interesting 
observations of the late celebrated Mr. Cowper, who 
amused himself for several years with the innocent 
playfulness of three of these animals, and afterwards 
