72 A DESCRIPTION OF 
wild Rabbit, although it is less timid than the hare, will 
fly from man as soon as it sees him ; and will seek for 
shelter in one of the burrows or passages it has formed in the 
earth: as one of the dissenting points in the characteristics 
of these two animals, so like each other in many respects, is 
that the hare lives above, and the Rabbit under ground. 
Tame Rabbits are larger than wild ones, from their 
taking more nourishment, and using less exercise. They 
are of various colours, and they do not, like wild Rabbits, 
burrow in the ground. 
THE SQUIRREL. ( Scirus vulgaris.) 
ELEGANCE of shape, spiritedness, and agility to leap from 
bough to bough in the forest, are the principal character- 
istics of this pretty animal. The Squirrel is of a deep 
reddish brown colour ; his breast and belly white. He is 
lively, sagacions, docile, and nimble : he lives upon nuts, 
and has been seen so tame as to dive into the pocket of 
his mistress, and search after an almond or a lump of 
sugar. In the woods, he leaps from tree to tree with 
surprising agility, living a most frolicsome life, surrounded 
with abundance, and having but few enemies. His time, 
however, is not entirely devoted to idle enjoyment, for in 
the luxuriant season of autumn, he gathers provisions for 
