27 JULY 1956, Page 27

Country Life

BY IAN NIALL IN the course of excursions into the hills to fish I frequently see numbers of brown hares, but when I first came to this part of Wales where the terrain is not unlike parts of Scot- land, I half-expected to see a• mountain hare or two. My books, however, told me that the mountain hare is a northern species and to confirm it the blue hare has the Latin name Lepus timid us scoticus. Needless to say, I didn't see a blue hare in Wales and I haven't done so yet, but the other day I was assured by a friend that blue hares are to be seen near Kinder Scout. I wonder if anyone can con- firm the blue hare so far from its native place or tell me just how far south it is found?