QUADRUPEDS. 
4 1 
Clafs I. ] 
the edges of the feats, and the ends of 
the toes in this animal, are of a yellowifn 
white. It may be added, that the float haunts 
woods, hedges and meadows; efpecially where 
there are brooks, whofe fides are covered with 
fmall bufhes ; and fometimes (but lefs fre¬ 
quently than the weefel) inhabits barns, and 
other buildings. 
In the moil northern parts of Europe thefe 
animals regularly change their color in winter; 
and become totally white, except the end of 
the tail, which continues invariably black. 
The fkins and tails are a very valuable article 
of commerce in Norway, Lapland , Rujfia , and 
other cold countries ; where they are found 
in prodigious numbers. The float is fome¬ 
times found white in Great-Britain , but not 
frequently; and then it is called a white weefel. 
That animal is alfo found white ; but may be 
eafily diflinguifhed from the other in the er¬ 
mine flate, by the tail, which in the weefel is 
of a light tawny brown. 
The natural hiflory of this creature is much 
the fame with that of the weefel, its food be¬ 
ing birds, rabbets, mice, &c. its agility the 
fime, and its fcent equally foetid : it is much 
more common in England than that animal. 
Sir Robert Sib bald mentions an animal, 
which he fays is common in Caithnefs , called 
there Eavellan: by his defcription it feems to 
belong to this genus. He fays it lives in the 
water, has the head of the weefel, and refem- 
bles that creature in color: and that its breath 
is prejudicial to cattle. Sib. hifl. Jcot . n. 
GENUS XIII. The HARE. 
SPECIES I. The HARE. 
The Hare. Rad Jyn. quad. 204. 
White Hare. Mort. Northampt- 
. 445 - 
Sib. Scot. 11. 
Meyer's an. 2. Tab. 32. 
Gefner quad. 605. 
Lepus caudatus ex cinereo rufiis. 
Brijfon quad. 138- 
Bujfon. Tom. 6 . 246. Tab■ 38. 
Lepus timidus. Lin. Jyfl. 57. 
Lepus cauda abrupta pupillis. 
atris. Faun. fuec. 19. 
Lepus vulgaris cinereus. Klein 
quad. 51. 
Plin.nat.hift. Lib. 8. c. 55. 
Britijh , Yfgyfarnog, Ceinach 
French , Lievre 
Italian , Lepre, Lievora 
Spanijh , Liebre 
'NAMES 
. 
Portug. Lebre 
German , Has, Haas 
" Dutch , Hafe 
Swedijh y Hare 
o enter on a minute defcription of 
fo well known an animal, would be 
to abufe the reader’s patience ; yet 
to negledl pointing out the admirable contriv¬ 
ance of its feveral properties and parts, would 
be fruflrating the chief defign of this work : 
that of pointing out the divine wifdom in the 
animal world. 
