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Alpine Hare (Lepus variabilis, now Lepus timidus)
Identifier: fivehundredfasci00mile (find matches)Title: Five hundred fascinating animal stories, with numerous colored plates, illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., etc., ect.Year: 1907 (1900s)Authors:  Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry), 1848-1929Subjects:  Animal behavior ZoologyPublisher:  New York, The Christian heraldContributing Library:  University of Connecticut LibrariesDigitizing Sponsor:  LYRASIS Members and Sloan FoundationView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:SSa» BEAVER( Castor canadensis )Text Appearing After Image:ALPINE HARE( Lepus variabilis) HARES AND RABBITS. 243 der—which swam across the water, as he had probably donemany times before. It was remarkable that the hares hadremained on the shore nearly half an hour, one of themoccasionally examining, as it would seem, the state of thecurrent, and ultimately taking to the sea at that precise periodof the tide called slack water, when the passage across couldbe effected without being carried by the force of the streameither above or below the desired point of landing. Theother hare then cantered back to the hills.A Hunted The following story of a hunted hare is fromHare. « The Annals of Sporting, for May 1822:— Twoyears ago, a doe hare produced two young ones in a fieldadjoining my cottage; and the three were occasionally seen,during the summer, near the same spot. But the leveretswere, I have reason to believe, killed at the latter end ofSeptember of the same year; the old doe hare was alsocoursed, and making directly for my cottage, enteNote About Images
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