THE Varying Hare, though scarcely half 

 the size of the jack-rabbit, makes almost 

 as large a track, and when he spreads his 

 feet in passing over frozen snow his tracks are 

 fully as large. The entire track picture, how- 

 ever, differs materially from that of the jack 

 the individual tracks stand much closer together, 

 and the feet are usually paired. The hare makes 

 many different track pictures, but he cannot long 

 refrain from making the jump shown slightly 

 reduced in the illustration and a following of 

 the trail for a short distance will always dispel any 

 existing doubt, even if the individual tracks are 

 larger than those of a young jack-rabbit. There 

 is a much greater likelihood of mistaking the 

 varying hare's trail for that of the cottontail rab- 

 bit, with which it has many points of resemblance. 

 Only the slenderness of the rabbit's foot serves 

 as a distinguishing feature in the trail so long as 



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