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use very small shot, say No. 7, for they require but slight 

 injury to prevent their escape. The season of the year in 

 which the greatest reward for his exertions will be obtain- 

 ed is in early spring, particularly if the ground retains a 

 covering of snow, with a bright warm sun overhead. In 

 the valley of the Wabash on such a day I have frequently 

 killed over fifty in an afternoon. In the State of Missouri, 



SWAMP HARES. 



near Brookfield, I have been equally successful. In fact, 

 so great are their numbers in the prairie countries, margin- 

 ing timber land, that any ordinary shot can do the same in 

 almost any portion of their habitat. The changeable, or 

 swamp hare, is also abundant ; but does not frequent the 

 same localities as the last mentioned, being partial to thick, 

 low-lying woodlands. Its southern range commences about 

 the fortieth degree of latitude, terminating about the fifty- 



