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holes like prairie dogs, and shot them. Several that he thus killed had 
only their heads exposed outside of their burrow. 
These holes or burrows are dug in a slanting direction, and not straight 
up and down like the badger holes. The females bring forth their young 
in them, and their habits must assimilate to those of the European rabbit. 
The captain states that they turn white in winter, but as he made no notes 
and brought no specimens, we cannot with certainty decide that they were 
the animal we named L. Townsendii. Should they prove to be the same, 
however, the name will have to be changed to L. campestris, a Hare of the 
plains which we had previously described, but subsequently thought was 
not that species, as it became white in winter, which we were told L. 
Townsendii did not. See our first volume, p. 30. 
