The Wild Beasts of the World, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Wild Beasts of the World, Vol. 2 The Common Home has for ages attracted the attention of man more than almost any other of the smaller animals of Europe, its excellence as a sporting beast Of the chase and a delicacy for the table having particularly commended it to the Greeks and Romans, who thought even more Of it in these capacities than we do. For a rodent it is a large animal, weighing from seven to twelve pounds, and its peculiar form, with long ears and short tail, is very distinctive, not only among rodents, but among beasts in general. The slender but powerful limbs, of which the hind pair are much the stronger, bear five toes on the fore and four on the hind feet, and have the pads covered with hair. The teeth differ from those of most rodents, in that there are two pairs Of incisors in the upper jaw instead Of one, but the second pair are very small, and are set behind the great centre pair, so that they are neither noticeable nor useful. The coat Of the Hare does not vary much in colour, though occasional black and white Specimens have been recorded, and a very pretty silver-grey variety sometimes occurs, in which the tawny yellow ground Of the fur is replaced by white, the black ticking remaining. In the northern part of its range the Hare shows some tendency to turn white in winter. It is essentially a European animal, being generally distributed over Europe, and not found outside it, in certain European countries, also, it is absent - in North Russia, Scandinavia, and Ireland, though in the last-named it has been artificially introduced in a few places. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.