Yet, like the horses, they are confined within certain limits; for they have not crossed the central chain of hills, nor would they have extended even so far as its base, if, as the Gauchos informed me, small colonies had not been carried there.

I should not have supposed that these animals, natives of Northern Africa, could have existed in a climate so humid as this, and which enjoys so little sunshine that even wheat ripens only occasionally.
It is asserted that in Sweden, which any one would have thought a more favourable climate, the rabbit cannot live out of doors.

The first few pairs, moreover, had here to contend against pre-existing enemies, in the fox and some large hawks.

The French naturalists have considered the black variety a distinct species, and called it Lepus Magellanicus.

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