Type genus of the Leporidae: hares.
1Below Orion is Lepus, the Hare, a small constellation containing some remarkable doubles.
2This is remarkable, as Gervais gives seven as the number for the whole genus Lepus.
3The gods surrounded Orion with celestial animals for him to hunt; Lepus, the rabbit, and Taurus, the bull.
4A single fragment of the bone of a hare (Lepus timidus) has been found at Moosseedorf.
5Even its Latin name, bestowed in 1759 by the great Swedish scientist Carl Linneaus, reflects its watchful nature: Lepus timidus.
6He has licensed five months of this cruel and discredited blood sport, despite claiming to be a keen admirer of Lepus Timidus Hibernicus.
7An adult male hare (Lepus brachyurus angustidens) was discovered in a moribund condition in the bush in the mountains of Aomori prefecture in Japan.
8Reports, 1845; H. M. Vernon, Variation in Animals and Plants (London, 1903) F. H. Welch, ''Winter Coat in Lepus americanus,'' Proc.
9Lepus = Julius Hare, author of "Guesses at Truth."
10LEPUS.-Oneof the southern constellations, placed near Orion, according to Grecian fable, because it was one of the animals which he hunted.