. British zoology . pious even to taile itf ^ yet this animal wascultivated by them; either for the pleafure of thechace; or for the purpofes of fuperftition, as we areinformed that Boadicia^ immediately before her Jaftconflid with the Romans., let loofe a hare (he hadconcealed in her bofom, which taking what v/asdeemed a fortunate courle, animated her foldies bythe omen of an eafy vidory over a timid enemy J. fiI. Alpine. Lepus hieme albus ForJ^er hijl. nat. Alpine Hare. Syn. quad,Volgo^. Ph. 7>. LVII. 343. No. 184. THE Alpine hare inhabits thefummits of thehighland mountains, never defcen
. British zoology . pious even to taile itf ^ yet this animal wascultivated by them; either for the pleafure of thechace; or for the purpofes of fuperftition, as we areinformed that Boadicia^ immediately before her Jaftconflid with the Romans., let loofe a hare (he hadconcealed in her bofom, which taking what v/asdeemed a fortunate courle, animated her foldies bythe omen of an eafy vidory over a timid enemy J. fiI. Alpine. Lepus hieme albus ForJ^er hijl. nat. Alpine Hare. Syn. quad,Volgo^. Ph. 7>. LVII. 343. No. 184. THE Alpine hare inhabits thefummits of thehighland mountains, never defcends into thevales, or mixes with the common fpecies which isfrequent in the bottoms: it lives among the rocks * Inter aves turdus, fi quid me judice verum: Inter quadrupedes gloria prima Lepus. Martial. 13. 02. t Leporem et gallina7n et anferem giijiare fas non putam : hcectamen alunt, animi voluptatifque caufa. Csefar. Com. lib. v. X Taura UTrao-a Kv.^m (xsv ek in w>m\ij Sec. Xiphilini EpitomeDionif. 173, with ALPINE HARE. IVfJ,/ HABBET. .1?^^2 <dt Class I. ALPINE HARE. with Ptarmigans^ natives of the loftieft fituations:does not run fall •, and if purfued is apt to takefhelter beneath (lones or in clefts of rocks: is eafi-ly tamed, and is very fprightly and full of frolick:is fond of honey, and carraway comfit% and isobferved to eat its own dung before a ftorm. It is lefs than the common hare, weighing only6 \h.~. whereas the firft weighs from eight to twelvepounds. Its hair is foft and full; the predomi-nant color grey mixed with a little black andtawny. This is its fummers drefs. In winter it entirely changes to a fnowy white-nefs except the edges and tips of the ears whichretain their blacknefs. The alteration of color be-gins in September^ and firft appears about the neckand rump. In ylpril it again refumes its grey is the cafe in Styria *, but in the polar tradsfuch as Greenland it never varies from white, theeternal color of the country. In the inte
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