had taken them out of a hare , killed in Jameson Land on 

 August 11, at Hurry Inlet. In Fleming Inlet Ditlevsen and 

 Madsen met with 4 hares, walking together, on August 25 a 

 little outside Cape Seaforth , three of them were leverets ; on 

 the same day one was seen at Cape Seaforth ; finally 1 hare 

 was seen in Canning Land at Cape Fletcher on September 1. 



The polar hare is an easily contented little animal ; it 

 often lives in desert places , difficult of approach. On the 



Fig. 1. 



(From a photograph.) 



whole it seems to be common in the tracts here mentioned. 

 Probably it has several litters of young in summer; thus a 

 hare killed in Turner Sund, on July 25, had milk in her 

 teats ; the three leverets, seen in Fleming Inlet on August 25, 

 were walking with their mother; a hare, killed in Hurry Inlet 

 in Jameson Land on August 18, had milk in her teats; and the 

 hare, that was killed in Hurry Inlet on August 11, was soon to bear. 

 When we left the coast, autumn began; it was snowing in 

 Jameson Land on August 19, and new ice was formed on the 

 pools; the end of August till late in September, is a typical 



