. The quadrupeds of North America [microform]. Mammals; Rodentia; Mammifères; Rongeurs. bRAY RABBIT. 171* there far from being abundant. It was exceedingly scarce nortb-east of Albany thirty-five years ago, where it has now become far more ous than the Northern hare, which was then the only species usually met with. It abounds in the sandy regions covered with pine trees west of that city. From Dutchess county to the southern limits of New-York it is found in considerable numbers. In Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, Mary- land, and all the Southern States, hunting the Gray Rabbit affords more
. The quadrupeds of North America [microform]. Mammals; Rodentia; Mammifères; Rongeurs. bRAY RABBIT. 171* there far from being abundant. It was exceedingly scarce nortb-east of Albany thirty-five years ago, where it has now become far more ous than the Northern hare, which was then the only species usually met with. It abounds in the sandy regions covered with pine trees west of that city. From Dutchess county to the southern limits of New-York it is found in considerable numbers. In Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, Mary- land, and all the Southern States, hunting the Gray Rabbit affords more amusement to young sportsmen than the pursuit of any other quadruped in the country. We have traced this species through all the higher por- tions of Florida. To the west we have seen it in all the Southern States, and it is very abundant on the upper Missouri River to nearly 1000 miles above Saint Louis. GENERAL REMARKS. This being the most common hare in the Atlantic States of America, it has been longest and most familiarly known. Herriott, who gave an account of the third voyage of the English to Virginia in 1586, in enu- merating the natural productions of that country, under the head of Conies, says, " Those that we have seen, and all that we can hear of, are of a gray colour like unto hares ; in some places there are such plen- ty that all the people, of some towns, make them mantles of the fur, or fleece of the skins of those which th.^j. usually ; It is odbsequently mentioned by the intrepid Governor Smith of Virginia, by Lawson and by Catesby. Kalm, in the 1st vol. of his Travels in America, gave a cor- rect description, not only of the animal, but of its habits. The following is an extract from his Journal: the entry was made either at Philadelphia or his favourite retreat "Racoon," in ihe vicinity of that city, on the 6th Jan. 1749. "There are a great number of hares in this country, but they differ from our Swedish ones in their size
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