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The encyclopaedia of sport (1897)

Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 551

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Mountain Hare. for the eagles and hill-foxes, which, were it notfor their existence, would take heavier toll of thegrouse. Interbreeding—Whether the brown andthe white hare ever interbreed is a questionthat is sometimes asked, and generally answeredin the negative. There are, however, cases… … t^^Y Slia-v Co.MMO.x Hare. J. G. Millais has come across several suchhybrids in Perthshire, and is convinced that onthe ground to which the blue hares descendfrom the hills and meet the lowland brownhares, such interbreeding is not so uncommonas is usually supposed. Their general suni-larity to one…

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