 | 1857 - 532 sivua
...is a notorious and hated depredator of the poultry house, and we have known forty well grown fowls to have been killed in one night by a single Ermine....nature, an instinctive propensity to kill. We have traced the footsteps of this bloodsucking little animal on the snow, pursuing the trail of the American... | |
 | Charles Henry Eden - 1876 - 272 sivua
..." It is a noted and hated depredator of the poultry-house, and we have known forty well-grown fowls to have been killed in one night by a single ermine....nature, an instinctive propensity to kill. We have traced the footsteps of this blood-sucking little animal on the snow, pursuing the trail of the American... | |
 | Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - 1877 - 418 sivua
...is a notorious aud hated depredator of the poultry house, and we have known forty well-grown fowls to have been killed in one night by a single Ermine....nature, an instinctive propensity to kill. We have traced the footsteps of this bloodsucking little animal on the snow, pursuing the trail of the American... | |
 | Elliott Coues - 1877 - 532 sivua
...is a notorious and hated depredator of the poultry house, and we have known forty well-grown fowls to have been killed in one night by a single Ermine....nature, an instinctive propensity to kill. We have traced the footsteps of this bloodsucking little animal on the snow, pursuing the trail of the American... | |
 | Elliott Coues - 1877 - 416 sivua
...is a notorious and hated depredator of the poultry House, and we have known forty well-grown fowls to have been killed in one night by a single Ermine....of probably a single fowl, the rest, like the flock slanghtered by the wolf in the sheepfold, were destroyed in obedience to a law of nature, an instinctive... | |
 | Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota - 1892 - 330 sivua
...is a notorious and hated depredator of the poultry house, and we have known forty well-grown fowls to have been killed in one night by a single Ermine....nature, an instinctive propensity to kill. We have traced the footsteps of this bloodsucking little animal on the snow, pursuing the trail of the American... | |
 | Clarence Luther Herrick - 1892 - 330 sivua
...is a notorious and hated depredator of the poultry house, and we have known forty well-grown fowls to have been killed in one night by a single Ermine....nature, an instinctive propensity to kill. We have traced the footsteps of this bloodsucking little animal on the snow, pursuing the trail of the American... | |
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It is a notorious and hated depredator of the poultry house, and we have known forty well-grown fowls to have been killed in one night by a single Ermine. Satiated with the blood of probably a single fowl, the rest, like the flock slaughtered by the wolf... 