A study was made of the food preferences of heres (Lepus europueus Pallas, 1778) in relation to branches of 12 of the commonest genera (and species) of trees found in hunting areas, placed for the purposes of the experiment on the ground, assessing the degree to which the branches were bitten according to a 7-degree scale from 0 to 6; a total of 3456 such assessments were made. Calculation of the significance of differences between mean assessments of degree to which the species examined were bitten permitted of dividing them into the following groups: (1) most readily bitten -Malus domestica Borkh