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The presence in Virginia of varying hares, better known as snowshoe rabbits, has been confirmed through the efforts of Game Warden, E. R. Arrington, assigned to Highland county who succeeded in locating three specimens, reports, Supervising Game Biologist, J. W. Engle. One of the rabbits taken by George J. Colaw of Bluegrass, Virginia, a member of the successful hunting party, will be mounted and displayed in the Game Commission’s Richmond office. Snowshoes were reported as uncommon in Highland county by Handly and Patton in their book “Wild Mammals of Virginia,” published in 1947, although their original range is thought to have included some of the higher elevations in the state.
In 1958, some 30 snowshoe hares were obtained by the Game Commission from the Wildlife Research Unit at the University of Maine and released in the extreme Northeastern corner of Highland county. Rumors that the animals were being seen by hunters have filtered out of the area for years but Game Commission personnel had never before had the opportunity to examine any of the rabbits. The
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