HARE, 
£248 
XXVI. 
H A R E. 
Two cutting teeth in each jaw. 
Long ears : fhort tail. 
Five toes before, four behind. 
184.C0MMON. Lcpus, Plinii, lib.vm. c. 55. Gsf- fpft.yj. Hafe, Faun.free. No. 25. 
£^r\r* F? /mm nijs/sl o r\ a l pruio nnLfiTc nv mfl'if? 
quad. 605. Raiijyn. quad. 204. Lepus caudatus cx cinereo rufas, 
Hafe, Klein quad. §1, Brijfon quad. 94. 
Lepus timidus. L. cauda abbre- Le Lievre; de Buffon, vi. 246. 
viata auriculis apice riigris ? Zi;z. tab. xxxviii. Br. Zool. I. 87. 
H. with ears tipt with black: eyes very large -and 
prominent: chin white : long white whifkers : hair 
on the face, back and Tides* white at the bottom, 
black in the middle, and tipt with tawny red : 
throat and bread; red : belly white : tail black above, 
white beneath: feet covered with hair even at the 
bottom : a large hare weighs eight pounds and a 
half: its length, from the nofe to the tail, two feet. 
Inhabits all parts of Europe , moil parts of Afia, 
Japan , Ceylon *, Mgypl **, Barb ary j~, and North 
America: a watchful!, timid animal: always lean : 
fwifter in running up hill than on even ground: 
when darted, immediately endeavours to run up 
hill: efcapes the hounds by various artfull doubles: 
lies the whole day on its feat: feeds by night: re¬ 
turns to its form by the fame road that it had taken 
in leaving it: does not pair: the rutting feafon is 
in February or March, when the male purfues the 
* Kampfer Japan, I. 126. Knox Ceylon , 20. 
** Profp. Alp. I. 232. 
Sha-vfs Travels, 249. 
female. 
