LARGE LOP-EARED RABBITS.
VARIOUS BREEDS.
FLUCTUATING CHARACTERS.
ORIGIN OF THE HIMALAYAN BREED.
CURIOUS CASE OF INHERITANCE.
FERAL RABBITS IN JAMAICA AND THE FALKLAND ISLANDS.
PORTO SANTO FERAL RABBITS.
OSTEOLOGICAL CHARACTERS.
SKULL.
SKULL OF HALF-LOP RABBITS.
VARIATIONS IN THE SKULL ANALOGOUS TO DIFFERENCES IN DIFFERENT SPECIES OF
HARES.
VERTEBRAE.
STERNUM.
SCAPULA.
EFFECTS OF USE AND DISUSE ON THE PROPORTIONS OF THE LIMBS AND BODY.
CAPACITY OF THE SKULL AND REDUCED SIZE OF THE BRAIN.
SUMMARY ON THE MODIFICATIONS OF DOMESTICATED RABBITS.

All naturalists, with, as far as I know, a single exception, believe that
the several domestic breeds of the rabbit are descended from the common
wild species; I shall therefore describe them more carefully than in the
previous cases. Professor Gervais (4/1. M.P. Gervais 'Hist. Nat. des
Mammiferes' 1854. tome 1 page 288.) states "that the true wild rabbit is
smaller than the domestic; its proportions are not absolutely the same; its
tail is smaller; its ears are shorter and more thickly clothed with hair;
and these characters, without speaking of colour, are so many indications
opposed to the opinion which unites these animals under the same specific
denomination." Few naturalists will agree with this author that such slight
differences are sufficient to separate as distinct species the wild and