M Southwick, in the mgazine:- enxnmu nauuuw ^ 
History, Vol.I, No. 7, July, 1&84, page 4, gives the folio’ 
account of this Hare in Rhode' Island. # 
’♦The largest representative in Rhode Island of this ord 
the American or Varying hare, Lepus Americanus var. VjLrg_ini; 
This species has a habit of keeping very close to cover, ani 
resort is thick swamps, among cedars.and tangled briers, wi 
it makes a nest or form, of grass, in which it sits. It i 
very plentiful with us, and we have never met with it, but 
curs in the c wa™p- swamp in South Kingston, and several en 
hunters in the northern part of the state report it. The 
re averages about twenty inches in length, and the summer p 
is generally a cinnamon brown mixed with black, chin i 
_j.~ ,.rv,-r + c hypfiRt, and front of neck yellow-broA/n, 
"°oty brown 
