Mammiferous Animals, 50B 



under date of January, 1829: — -A gentleman informs me 

 that the hounds with which he was hunting yesterday chased, 

 for a considerable time, a white hare; that one was killed, 

 not long since, near the same place ; and that some young 

 ones of the same colour have been seen. It is supposed that 

 there are seven in the same neighbourhood ; and it is certain 

 they have been seen in summer as well as winter. Indeed, 

 cold cannot now have caused the change, since we have had 

 none until within these few days. The gentleman upon whose 

 estate they are wishes to preserve the breed; on which 

 account the hounds were drawn off before they had killed 

 that which they had hunted. Again, under the date of Fe- 

 bruary, 1832, I jfind I have noted as follows : — Many white 

 hares have been seen in the same neighbourhood during 

 several years. One that I have now examined was white, 

 but with a perceptible universal tinge of brown ; the ears 

 whitish without black tips ; under the feet, brown, as in com- 

 mon hares. Another, examined by Mr. Jackson, was of a 

 pure white ; ears of the ordinary length, not tipped with 

 black ; lips white. Thus, it appears that these were only 

 specimens of a variety of the common hare; but it is singular 

 that it should have existed and propagated on one estate for 

 several years ; and, it would appear, without varying accord- 

 ing to the season. — J, Couch. Polperro, Cornwall, May 29. 

 1834. 



A dateless scrap lying by us advises us of a fine white hare, 

 shot in Bleasdale, which had been put into a state of preserv- 

 ation for the owner, Mr. Hall. 



A Two-coloured Hare was, some years ago, shot upon the 

 lawn, about The Mount, near Bury St. Edmunds, by M. T. 

 Cocksedge, Esq., since deceased, then resident at The Mount, 

 and proprietor of the estate. This was stuffed, and placed in 

 a glass case over the fireplace in his gun-room, where it 

 remained as lately as January, 1834, when I saw it there. 

 As nearly as I remember, the greater proportion of the fore 

 half of the body was white ; the remainder, of the usual colour 

 of hares, or, perhaps, rather lighter. — J, D, 



A veryjine Black Hare was killed on January 15. 1833, on 

 the estate of Wm. Selby Lowndes, Esq., called Tuckey Hill 

 Farm, in the parish of Winslow, Bucks. The head and legs 

 were as black as jet, and had much the appearance of black 

 silk velvet. Its weight was nearly 7 lbs. {BelVs Life in Lon- 

 don^ Feb. 10. 1833.) — James Fennell. 



The fact of the capture of a black hare, in January or 

 February, 1828, at Combe, near Coventry, is registered in 

 I. 84. ; and the occurrence of a wild black variety of the 



