ght and size as the common hare, but
their heads are longer; consequently, if the lop-eared rabbits had been
wild, it might have been expected that their skulls would have had
nearly the same capacity as that of the skull of the hare. But this is
far from being the case; for the average capacity of the two
hare-skulls (Nos. 23, 24) is so much larger than the average capacity
of the seven lop-cared skulls, that the latter would have to be
increased 21 per cent. to come up to the standard of the hare.[274]

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| | Length
Name of Breed. | Length | of Body from
WILD AND SEMI-WILD RABBITS. | of | Incisors to
| Skull. | Anus.
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| inches. | inches.
1. Wild rabbit, Kent | 3.15 | 17.4
2. " Shetland Islands | 3.15 | ..
3. " Ireland | 3.15 | ..
4. Domestic rabbit, run wild, Sandon | 3.15 | 18.5
5. Wild, common variety, small specimen, Kent | 2.96 | 17.0
6. Wild, fawn-coloured variety, Scotland | 3.1 | ..
7. Silver-grey, small specimen, Thetford warren| 2.95 | 15.5
8. Feral rabbit, Porto Santo | 2.83 | ..
9. " " | 2.85 | ..
10. " " | 2.95 | ..
Average of the three Porto Santo Rabbits | 2.88 | ..
| |
Domestic Rabbits | |
| |
11. Himalayan | 3.5 | 20.5
12. Moscow | 3.25 | 17.0
13. Angora | 3.5 | 19.5
14. Chinchilla | 3.65 | 22.0
15. Large lop-eared | 4.1 | 24.5
16.