. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. 376 THE RODENTS OR GNAU1XG ANIMALS. Change of the "When the Alps are buried in snow Fur ofthe Aipine jn December this Hare is as purely Hare. white as the snow itself, only the tips of the ears remaining black. The spring sun- shine induces a very remarkable change of color, this change beginning in March. The animal first becomes dark on the back, and gray hairs appear more and more numerously amid the white of the flanks. In April it has a queer, pie-
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. 376 THE RODENTS OR GNAU1XG ANIMALS. Change of the "When the Alps are buried in snow Fur ofthe Aipine jn December this Hare is as purely Hare. white as the snow itself, only the tips of the ears remaining black. The spring sun- shine induces a very remarkable change of color, this change beginning in March. The animal first becomes dark on the back, and gray hairs appear more and more numerously amid the white of the flanks. In April it has a queer, pie-bald appearance. The dark brown hue gains more ground every day, and finally in May the change is complete, the color being uniform and not mottled like that of the Com-. coat is daik brown, but :n winter it 15 ml asily frightened, and always active. [Lc THE ALPINE HARE. Thi' regions of the Alps. In the summer tl These are very pretty creatures, agile, mon Hare, the fur of which is of a coarser texture than that of the Alpine Hare. In autumn the first white hairs appear with the first snow; but as winter reaches its climax in less time than does spring in the Alps, the change is wrought more rapidly, and is completed sometime during the period extending from the beginning of October to the middle of November. When the Chamois becomes black, its neighbor, the Hare, turns white. The Alpine Hare is commonly found in all the higher Alpine regions, where it is at least as numerous as is the brown Hare in the lower belt. Its favorite country lies between the point at which the fir-trees cease to grow and the line of perpetual snow, at about the same altitude as is favored by the Snow-Hen or Ptarmigan and the Marmot, from 4,800 to 7,800 feet above the sea; it may sometimes range much higher, however. The Propagation "The female gives birth to from two of Alpine to five young, which are no larger Hares. than Mice and have a white spot on the forehead. The first litter usually appe
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