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. (1907) (14753327054)

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), 1848-1929
Subjects: Animal behavior Zoology
Publisher: New York, The Christian herald
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation



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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, ente