Also 7 tapati. [Tupi.] The Brazilian rabbit, Lepus brasiliensis.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 842. The Tapati also barke like Dogges.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1776), IV. 54. The Tapeti, or the Brasilian rabbit, is in shape like our English ones, but is much less.
1830. trans. Buffon’s Nat. Hist. Quadrupeds, III. xxi. 391. The tapeti resembles the hair in its manner of living, in fecundity, and in the quality of its flesh, which is extremely good.
1909. E. W. Nelson, Rabbits of N. Amer., 44, section title. Subgenus Tapeti Gray.
