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Remains of this interesting animal have been found in Linton 
Loch, and a skull is now preserved in the Museum of Kelso. 
FAMILY IV, LEPORIDA, 
I, LEPUS, Linn. 
1. L. cuntcutus, Zinn. Raxssit. Coney. 
This species abounds everywhere in our district. The sand 
hills or links along our coast are an especially favourite locality, 
and at Bamborough and other similar places their numbers are 
prodigious. The Rey. H: B. Tristram informs us that the black 
variety is met with in Castle Eden Dene. 
2. L. trimipus, Linn. Hare. (Scot. Mavxin.) 
This species is still abundant in our district, in spite of the 
gloomy forebodings of Wallis, who in the following lines expresses 
sentiments which it should be among the chief objects of the 
Club to reduce to practice. 
“ Hares,” says he, ‘have with us been as plentiful as in most 
countries, but they are like to be as scarce as the admired birds 
of our heaths, the Gor and Grey, unless our young sportsmen 
would have more regard to their preservation and their own 
pleasure. The consideration of their own healths, promoted by 
the exercise of the chace, should prevail with them, methinks, 
prudently to save, and not in a precipitate fury of desire to 
destroy an useful and innocent race of beings, intended by Pro- 
vidence to give us both food and pleasure, and some part of our 
ornamental and necessary clothing, for the pitiful and brutal 
ambition only of boasting among their companions of their killing 
their twenty, their thirty, or their forty brace in a season. 
Savage and inhuman butchery; away with it from North- 
umberland. Let posterity enjoy the same blessings, so con- 
tributive to health, as our forefathers have done, with moderation.” 
{t is well for this excellent man that he lived and wrote 
before the days of scientifically planned battues; words would 
have failed him to express his indignant horror at such cold- 
blooded butcheries and unsportsmanlike proceedings. 
