Crossword-Solution: LEPUS 5 letters, 18 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Trinarii quodam currentem in littoris ora Ante canes leporem caeruleus rapuit; At lepus: in me omnis terrae pelagique rapina est, Forsitan et coeli, si canis astra tenet.

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

The parent-form must have been a burrowing animal, a habit not common, as far as I can discover, to any other species in the large genus Lepus.

Lesson described the black variety as a distinct species, under the name of _Lepus magellanicus,_ but this, as I have elsewhere shown, is an error.[22] Within recent times the sealers have stocked some of the small outlying islets in the Falkland group with rabbits; and on Pebble Islet, as I hear from Admiral Sulivan, a large proportion are hare-coloured, whereas on Rabbit Islet a large proportion are of a bluish colour, which is not elsewhere seen.

The same principle may account for the ewes in certain breeds of sheep being hornless, like the females of some other hollow-horned ruminants; it may account for certain domestic cats having slightly-tufted ears, like those of the lynx; and for the skulls of domestic rabbits often differing from one another in the same characters by which the skulls of the various species of the genus Lepus differ.