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Cross between Hare and Rabbit. — Mr. Hawley hasa stuffed specime 
of ‘hie hybrid, between Hare (Lepus europeus). and Rabbit (L. cuni aia): 
and I have also one. As I spoke of this hybrid last year (1897), I need not 
say more now than that it was thought So first that the Hare and Rabbit, 
being so different in their habits, would not interb ni iry, how- 
ever, I that, not only were there eb well-known single cases of 
their having interbred, but that the production of th ss had carrie 
on, rather extensively, for trading setae in France I have shot five 
specimens of this pane on Kirkby Moor, and one has been seen there recently. 
J. Conway WALTER, Langton Rectory, Horncastle, 18th August 1898. 
Fox and Bae Hybrids near Horncastle.—I exhibited, when the 
Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union met at Holbeck and Tetford, in August 1897, 
a cas i i en a fox an reat 
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(Vulpes pee and the mother a Sareea bitch between Shepherd Dog 
ved. The port as bough 
iy yh Wack savant, M. M. Suchetet, with a view to further experiments. 
o n one ¢ t Ashby Puerorum, a f ailiff, , tied 
his Shepherd bitch near a fox-earth; and t pup r is now in the 
possession of Mr. Fran e, of Scrivelsby Park , 
a gamekeeper near Lo tied a bitch in the nutting season, to 
give warning of trespassers, and subsequently the bitch had pu vidently 
a cross wi Ox. ne of these is now in the possession of Mr. Waltham, 
dealer in china, High Street, Horncastle. Another is in the possession of 
Mr. E. Walter, farmer, of Hatton, a cous rie of Mr, Stafford Walter, who 
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down ram yields lambs wit black points like the sire, though with the finer 
wool of the Merino, as a sort of compromise between the two. 
Speaking of crosses, I may say that there is a living specimen at Horn- 
castle of a cross between a tame R it and a he se 2 hy and I have 
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16th August 1898. 
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