Degenerate Rabbits

In the year 1419 a few rabbits were born on a Spanish ship and put on the island of Porto Santo. There -were no beasts of prey there, and these little animáis inoreased so enormoualy as to becoine a pest to the countiy, and compelled a colony to remove from it They are still there, but in the course of 450 years they have become a "species;" they have a peculiar color, a rat-like shape, are sniall in size, live a nocturnal lite, and aro of extreme wildness. And now they refuse even to pair with the European