TWO KINDS. 



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higher mountain ranges of the north. As the existence 

 of two species is, however, questioned hy some sports- 

 men and others, I will not weary the reader by their 

 description ; but in the few observations that I have to 

 make about the hare, shall consider them as one and the 



same. 



THE SCANDINAVIAN HARE. 



This animal is grey in summer, but in the winter time, 

 in the northern provinces at least, with the exception of 

 the tips of the ears, which are then black, is, as depicted 

 above, altogether white. In the summer season the Scandi- 

 navian hare is not dissimilar in appearance to the hare 

 common to Ireland ; and, in the lower parts of the country, 

 it is fully as large as ours in England. Although the 



