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Jean-Jacques Boujot from Paris, France, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons / https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Lepus_europaeus_%28…IMAGE INFORMATION

English Hare

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

June 25, 1823

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 124

Notes:

This specimen was probably the European hare (Lepus europaeus).

The donor may have been Philadelphia jeweler Edmond Crawley.

Specimen Type:

Dead/preserved

Peale's Common Name:

English hare

Current Common Name:

European hare

Current Scientific Name

Lepus europaeus