Mountain, Irish Hare = mountain hare subspecies (Lepus timidus hibernicus) "Mountain, Irish Hare" illustration from "British Mammals" by A. Thorburn, 1920
cf.) In Ireland, the Irish hare (Lepus timidus hibernicus) lives on lowland pastures, coastal grasslands, and salt marshes, not just in the mountains.
Date 1920
Source http://theprintportfoliogallery.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=61_65
Author Archibald Thorburn
Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Mountain_Irish_Hare.JPG
The mountain hare (Lepus timidus), also known as blue hare, tundra hare, variable hare, white hare, snow hare, alpine hare, and Irish hare, is a Palearctic hare that is largely adapted to polar and mountainous habitats. Lepus timidus is distributed from Fennoscandia to eastern Siberia; in addition, isolated mountain populations occur in the Alps, Scotland, the Baltics, northeastern Poland, and HokkaidÅ.
Order: Lagomorpha
Family: Leporidae
Genus: Lepus
Species: Lepus timidus Linnaeus, 1758
