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Water Hare
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- Length
- 21 inches.
- Description
- Finely mottled above with buff, rufous and black hairs, buff predominating more than in the cottontail; belly and underside of tail pure white. Feet rather scantily haired and ears longer than in the cottontail.
- Range
- Lower Mississippi Valley north to Southern Illinois.
The swamps of the lower Mississippi harbour still another member of the rabbit tribe--the great water hare, an animal with habits so far as we know similar to those of the marsh hare, but in size larger than that species or the cottontail.
The difficulty of following this and the last species into their swampy retreats renders them but little known to hunters and is responsible for our lack of knowledge concerning them.