. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. 376 THE RODENTS OR GNAWING Change of the "When the Alps are buried in snow Fur of the 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
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. 376 THE RODENTS OR GNAWING Change of the "When the Alps are buried in snow Fur of the 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-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884; Pechuel-Loesche, Edward, 1840-1913; Haacke, Wilhelm, 1855-1912; Schmidtlein, Richard. Chicago : Marquis
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