THE HOLY BIBLE Douay-Rheims

Notes on Book of Leviticus (Author Bishop Richard Challoner (ed.))

11:5 The cherogrillus: Some suppose it to be the rabbit, others the hedgehog. St. Jerome intimates that it is another kind of animal common in Palestine, which lives in the holes of rocks or in the earth. We choose here, as also in the names of several other creatures that follow (which are little known in this part of the world,) to keep the Greek or Latin names.

Original Douay-Rheims from Project Gutenberg - Massive cleanup of OCR problems and editing done locally.