ALPINE HARE. 
5 " These ricks are also of great service to 
( that branch of mankind who devote them- 
s selves to the laborious employ of sable-hunting . 
yifor, being obliged to go far from home, their 
;i^horses would often perish for want, if they 
;|tiad not the provisions of these industrious little 
lytanimals to support them ; which are easily to 
jtjbe discovered, by their height and form, even 
)yiwhen covered with snow. It is for this reason, 
a that this little beast has a name among every 
1. Siberian and Tartarian nation ; which, other- 
;;;wlse, would have been overlooked and despised. 
tlijThe people of Jakutz are said to feed both 
:lttheir horses and cattle with the rehques of the 
'winter stock of these Hares. 
" These animals,'* adds Pennant, are neg- 
iiejiefled, as a food, by mankind ; but they are 
he prey of Sables, and the Siberian Weasel, 
which are joint inhabitants of the mountains." 
rhey are much infested by the Oestrus Le- 
)orinus; a species of Gad- Fly, which lodges 
t*s eggs in their skins about August and Sep- 
ember, and often destroys them. 
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