This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...observed the playfulness of young Foxes, and may here observe that they can be watched without giving them the least alarm, if the observer be elevated only a few feet from the ground. Seated in the top of a pollard ash, we have watched for an hour at a time, without exciting the least suspicion, several half-grown ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...observed the playfulness of young Foxes, and may here observe that they can be watched without giving them the least alarm, if the observer be elevated only a few feet from the ground. Seated in the top of a pollard ash, we have watched for an hour at a time, without exciting the least suspicion, several half-grown Foxes, although they were continually within a few feet of us." Its usual prey consists of hares, rabbits, various kinds of ground birds, particularly partridges, of which it destroys great numbers; and it often makes its way into the farmyard, committing sad havoc amongst the poultry. It has been known not unfrequently to carry off a young lamb. In default of this its favourite food, it has recourse to "rats and mice, and such small deer "--or even to frogs or worms. We have heard from a man much engaged in woods, that the Fox gives the preference to putrid meat. The remark was elicited by observing the skin of a Hedgehog turned inside out, which was at once claimed by the woodman as the work of a Fox. We are much disposed to accord with this opinion, having often observed that Hedgehogs which have been taken in traps are, after a time, devoured by some animal of sufficient size to turn the skin inside outwards. As Badgers do not occur where this has been observed, and Dogs and Cats will not feed on the Hedgehog, it must be attributed either to the Fox or to magpies and crows. As a further evidence of the proneness of the Fox for high meat, we may mention having seen the remains of several rooks and a magpie taken from the nest of a Fox, all of which had been trussed and hung up in a cornfield as scarecrows, and had become quite putrid. The Fox also resorts to the sea-shore, in search of such fish, mollusca, Crustacea, and other m...
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