Leaves and twigs, and digestion had scarcely begun, Mr. Strassell shot her about 2 P.M., - locality, thick forest. Sept 25. About 3 P.M., today Mrs. Stephens and I were out in the forest two miles west of Renton, Washington. A highway had been cut through the timber several years ago, but had been allowed to grow up with brush, [illegible] I saw a hare (Lepus auduboni ss ?) sitting on a log eating a fern frond and motioned to Mrs. S. to come and look at it. We could see the hare plainly as it was not more than twenty feet away, and it saw us as well. Presently it jumped down toward us and went on eating. We stood there looking at it two or three minutes, talking in a low tone about it. It then jumped back on the log and sat down looking at us quietly. I started toward it slowly and took several steps before it jumped down and went away. It was probably the largest wild hare I ever saw, and