Lepus Tariabilis Pall. Polar Hare. 



Scoresby saw 3 white Hares at Cape Hope, and shot one 

 of them; he saw also hares at Cape Brewster. Clavering saw 

 on August 80, 1823, white hares on Jordan Hill; its occurrence 

 in these regions has thus been known for a long time. It was 

 observed in a few places, during the second German arctic 

 voyage , thus in Sabine Island and Clavering Island where 4 

 were seen together. During the expedition of Ryder ^), it was 

 observed in several places near Scoresby Sund: Nordvestfjord, 

 Røde 0, Danmarks 0, and its traces were seen in Jameson 

 Land and Gaaseland. Nathorst observed it in Pendulum 

 Island, Clavering Island, where 4 were seen together, at 

 Cape Broer Buys, in Ruth's Island, and at Cape Weber. It 

 was not rare at all in the regions travelled over by the ship 

 expedition, and no greater landing was made without seeing it, 

 thus in Sabine Island on July 11 (3), at Cape Borlase Warren 

 on July 14, to the south of Scoresby Sund at Cape Dalton 

 on July 20, and in Turner Sund on July 25 (2), in Hurry Inlet 

 at the bottom of the inlet on August 5 ; in Jameson Land 

 on August 7, at Point Constable, was seen a leveret, on August 

 10 on the Liverpool Kyst were seen 2 hares. 



During the wandering of Nordenskiöld and Deichmann over 

 Jameson Land, single hares were seen all over the country, 

 mostly in very desert places rather high up ; Koch observed it 

 at Carlsberg Fjord; on August 18 one was shot at Forstenings- 

 kløften, near the border of the plateau. Hartz and Koch 

 brought 2 almost mature foetus on board the ship; they 



Bay, Medd. om Grønl., XIX, 1894, p. 17. 



