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lepus americanus
Large large-footed North American hare; white in winter.
snowshoe hare
varying hare
Lepus americanus
Portuguese
lepus americanus
1
He came on a
snowshoe
rabbit
and decided to take it.
2
Squatted there, staring at him with big round eyes, was a huge
snowshoe
rabbit
.
3
And leap by leap, like some pale frost wraith, the
snowshoe
rabbit
flashed on ahead.
4
As the
snowshoe
rabbit
breeds all the summer through, Baree found himself in a land of plenty.
5
The marmots had descended into their burros, the
snowshoe
rabbit
hopped, a lonely figure in the desolation, through the drifts.
6
Ninety-four Eskimos working in the Kodiak Islands of what was then the Territory of Alaska replenished the
snowshoe
rabbit
population.
7
At the mouth of the Tahkeena, one night after supper, Dub turned up a
snowshoe
rabbit
,
blundered it, and missed.
8
Bounding into a thicket it went, when out of the other side there leaped a
snowshoe
rabbit
,
away and away for dear life.
9
Once, like another Crusoe, by the edge of the river he came upon a track-thefaint tracery of a
snowshoe
rabbit
on the delicate snow-crust
10
They had made short work of the
snowshoe
rabbit
,
these dogs that were ill-tamed wolves; and they were now drawn up in an expectant circle.
11
That is why you are often called a
Snowshoe
Rabbit
.
12
Two big yellow-gray
snowshoe
rabbits
came hopping lazily past, one just ahead of the other.
13
There were no ptarmigan, no squirrels, no
snowshoe
rabbits
,
-
nothing
14
The
snowshoe
rabbits
were completely buried under their windfalls and shelters, and lay quietly in their warm nests.
15
From Le Beau's traps he took only the living things, chiefly birds and squirrels and the big web-footed
snowshoe
rabbits
.
16
He had broken through the melting snow-crust, and wallowed, while the
snowshoe
rabbits
had skimmed along on top lightly as ever.
Portuguese
lepus americanus