. Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences . I. Lep-us fflacialis (Lezch). Polar Hare. Larger than X. rirpim'anws ; colour in winter white; hair of a uniform white to the roots; in summer of a light-grey above j ears black. This species is the largest at present known in North America. It has a wide range in the northern portions of America, having been found on both sides of Baffin's Bay, on the Banen Grounds, as far north as the country has yet been explored; in the North Georgian Islands ; and in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. It shelters itself among large stones, o
. Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences . I. Lep-us fflacialis (Lezch). Polar Hare. Larger than X. rirpim'anws ; colour in winter white; hair of a uniform white to the roots; in summer of a light-grey above j ears black. This species is the largest at present known in North America. It has a wide range in the northern portions of America, having been found on both sides of Baffin's Bay, on the Banen Grounds, as far north as the country has yet been explored; in the North Georgian Islands ; and in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. It shelters itself among large stones, or in the crevices of rocks, feeds in winter on the Labrador Tea plant and the berries of the Alpine Arbutus, produces several young at a birth, and affords excellent eating, its flesh having a finer flavour than that of any other American Haie. 2. L. Virginzanus (Harlan). Northern Hare. Larger than the American Hare, less than the Polar ; white in winter, the roots of the hairs blue, then yellowish-fawn, tipped with white; in summer, reddish-brown above, white beneath; ears a little shorter than the head. This species is plentiful in the Northern States, in Canada, in the fur countries as far north as lat. 64" 30/, and has been seen on the Columbia River, the plains of the Missouri, and in the eastern states as far south as Virginia. It is supposed to be the fleetest species known, and Lewis and Clarke ascertained by measurement that it could leap 21 feet at a bound. It confines itself to the densest forests or to prairies over- grown with tall grass, feeds principally at night on grasses, bark, leaves, and buds of shrubs and trees, but as an article of food is inferior to the other species. 3. L. aquaticus. Swamp Hare. Larger than the American Hare, being nearly the size of the Northern Hare; tail, ears, and head, long; feet long, narrow, less co- vered with hair than those of the American Hare; general colour nearly black above, white beneath. This species, now first des
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