DCHP-3

northern hare

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a species of hare, Lepus americanus, especially common in the North, so called because its fur is brown in summer and white in winter.

Quotations

1866
The common Hare of Canada, or Northern Hare (Lepus Americanus), though one of those generally denominated throughout the country a "rabbit," is in its habits and anatomy a true hare, and presents the following very distinctive characteristics of the species:--its legs are much longer than those of the common rabbit; there is a greater disproportion between the length of the fore and hind legs; and the eye is yellow.