. Monographs of North American rodentia [microform]. Rodentia; Paleontology; Rongeurs; Paléontologie. â ^ii! I ") 368 MONOGRAPHS OP NORTH AMERICAN RODENTIA. Worldâhas to such an extent reverted to a feral condilion in d few localities as to deserve a passing notice in the present connection. Mr. B. R. Gilpin states* that the Rabbit exists in a wild state on "Sable Island, a desert island about ninety miles southeast of Nova ; Here he says they have, in the space of fifty years, assumed "one common silver-gray tint, with white ; Count L. F. de Pourtales
. Monographs of North American rodentia [microform]. Rodentia; Paleontology; Rongeurs; Paléontologie. â ^ii! I ") 368 MONOGRAPHS OP NORTH AMERICAN RODENTIA. Worldâhas to such an extent reverted to a feral condilion in d few localities as to deserve a passing notice in the present connection. Mr. B. R. Gilpin states* that the Rabbit exists in a wild state on "Sable Island, a desert island about ninety miles southeast of Nova ; Here he says they have, in the space of fifty years, assumed "one common silver-gray tint, with white ; Count L. F. de Pourtales informs me that some years since he was told by Colonel Patterson, an old resident of Florida, of the existence of some Rabbits which lived in burrows on Rabbit Key near Key West, which in all probability were the L. cuniculus. Mr. P. H. Gosse states, on the authority of Mr. Richard Hill, that the Common Rabbit had reverted to a feral con- dition in certain parts of the island of Darwin says later, also on the authority of Mr. Hill, that it never flourished there, owing to the un- favorable character of the climate, and that, owing to a great fire which occur- red in the woods, they became exlinctf Darwin also states that the Rabbit, long since introduced into the Falk- land Islands, has there also reverted to a feral condition. He adds, however, that they have never spread there extensively, although abundant over largo parts of the East Falkland Island. Like the Horses, they are confined within certain limits, and had not, at the time of his visit, crossed the central chain of hills, nor would they have extended even so fur as its base, had not, according to the Gauchos, small colonies been carried there. Most of them, he says, are of the common gray color, but a few are "hare-colored", and many are black, often with symmetrical white marks on their faces. As already noted, M. R. P. Lesson described tlie black variety as a distinct species, under the n
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