THE SEATTLE STAR — JANUARY 2, 1922
Rare Species to Be Mounted and Given Museum
ENID, Okla. Jan. 2.—Local hunters are oiling their guns in preparation for a big rabbit hunt following the shooting of a rabbit on whose head was a pair of well-defined horns. A few days previous another rabbit had been shot by a couple of out-of town hunters who claimed that their trophy also had real horns, altho not quite so well defined as in the case of the second rabbit.
Four local rabbit fanciers were hunting the “cottontail” about nine miles northwest of Enid. Suddenly an unusually large rabbit ran out of a bush in front and sat up on its haunches directly in their path about fifty yards ahead. One of the men shot it.
Upon examination they found that it possessed pair of real horns, located just back of the ears and about the size of a man’s finger.
According to scientists such species of rabbit do exist, but they are very rare. This is the first time, as far as can be learned, that any have been been in this section. The hunters who killed the horned rabbit are going to have the head mounted and will then probably present it to some museum.
From— The Seattle Star. (Seattle, Wash.), 02 Jan. 1922. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
