Several species of hare are commonly called Brown Hare:
- The Cape Hare (Lepus capensis}
- The European Hare (Lepus europaeus) may be commonly called the Brown Hare, or the European Brown Hare
Famous quotes containing the words brown and/or hare:
““I am as brown as brown can be,
And my eyes as black as sloe;
I am as brisk as brisk can be,
And wild as forest doe.”
—Unknown. The Brown Girl (l. 1–4)
“I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot see a chicken’s neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)