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face. It also turns nearly pure white in winter, as the 

 other jack-rabbits do not. 



8. " In noting the habitat of the prairie hare, we must 



The Jack-Rabbit. 



exclude all wooded regions from the range. Emphatically 

 a creature of the plains, it probably never enters timber, 

 though it may range up to the very edge of the woods, 

 and even be found in the brush along the river-bottoms. 

 This hare is not gregarious, but roams in solitude over the 

 broad, rolling prairie, where the antelope and the buffalo 

 range. As we measure the weary miles of a dav's march, 



