HARE. 
faid to have only a naked (lump, an inch in length, 
inftead of a tail: fome weigh twenty pounds * : they 
burrow under ground, and run into their holes when 
chaced. 
Cuniculus, Plihii, lib. viii. c. 5$. Lepus cuniculus. L. cauda ab- 
Gefner quad. 362. Agricola An. breviata, auriculis nudis. Lin. 
Subt. 482. fyfi. 77. Kanin, Faun.fuec. No. 
Rabbet, or Coney, Rail Jyn. quad. 26. Br.Zool.l. 90. 
205. Lepus caudatus, obfcure cinereus 
Lepufculus, cuniculus terram BriJJon quad. 95. 
fodiens, Kaninchen, Klein quad. Le Lapin, de Buffon , vi. 303. 
- tab. L. Li. 
H, with ears aimed: naked: color of the fur, in a 
wild date, brown : tail black above, white beneath : 
in a tame Hate, vary to black,' pied, and quite 
white : the eyes of the laft of a line red. 
Inhabits, in a wild Hate, the temperate and hot 
parts of Europe , and the hotted: parts of Afia and 
Africa: not originally Britijhs but fucceeds here 
admirably : will not live in Sueden , or the northern 
countries, except in houfes. Strabo -f- tells us, that 
they were firft imported into Italy from Spain: not na¬ 
tives of America^ but encreafe greatly in S. America^. 
Mod: prolific animals: breed feven times in a 
year : produce eight young at a time : fuppofing 
that to happen regularly, one pair may bring in 
four years 1,274,840: in warrens, keep in their 
holes in the middle of the day ; come out morning 
and night: the males apt to deftroy the young: the 
* IVoodj' <voy. in Dumpier , IV. 85. Voy. of the Dolphin, 33. 
f Lib. iii. 
± About Hudfotis Bay are great plenty of what our Colonjfts call 
Rabbets: they are grey in fummer, white in winter : fo probably 
are the fame with the preceding. The common Hare is alfo found 
there, but is very fcarce * it alfo changes to white in winter. Manu- 
fcript hift, of Hudfotfs bay. 
Ikins 
25 r 
i86.Rabbet* 
