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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 441

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l notice. It is the North American Pika,commonly called the NORTH AMERICAN PIKA. Utj.^ Chi£F Hare {La-zcniys pnnccps.) or Crying Hare, al-though it is no hare at all, nor even a true rab-bit. In form it stands about midway betweenthe gray rabbit and the guinea-pig. It hasvery short legs and ears,… … crevices of which it nests securely. It is muchgiven to crying, and often its sharp little criescome from so many different points of its rocky fortress at the same time as completely to con-fuse the hunter. There are but two species ofpikas in North America, one of which is newlydiscovered. In the…

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