The Mammals of Pennsylvania and New Jersey: A Biographic, Historic and Descriptive Account of the Furred Animals of Land and Sea, Both Living and Extinct, Known to Have Existed in These States ...Privately published, 1903 - 266 sivua |
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Sivu 48 - ... each. The first and second years, so unacquainted •were these poor brutes with the use of this man's house or - with his nature, that in a few hours they rubbed the house completely down; taking delight in turning the logs off •with their horns, while he had some difficulty to escape from being trampled under their feet, or crushed to death in his own ruins.
Sivu 170 - A glance at the physiognomy of the weasels would suffice to betray their character. The teeth are almost of the highest known raptorial character; the jaws are worked by enormous masses of muscles covering all the side of the skull. The forehead is low and the nose is sharp; the eyes are small, penetrating, cunning, and glitter with an angry green light. There is something peculiar, moreover, in the way this fierce face surmounts a body extraordinarily wiry, lithe, and muscular.
Sivu 49 - In the first and second years this old man with some companions, killed from six to seven hundred of these noble creatures, merely for the sake of their skins, which to them were worth only two shillings each ; and after this
Sivu 158 - Their favorite sport is sliding, and for this purpose in winter the highest ridge of snow is selected, to the top of which the Otters scramble, where, lying on the belly with the fore-feet bent backwards, they give themselves an impulse with their hind legs and swiftly glide head-foremost down the declivity, sometimes for the distance of twenty yards. This sport they continue apparently with the keenest enjoyment until fatigue or hunger induces them to desist.
Sivu 49 - ... they were obliged to leave the place till the following season, or till •the wolves, bears, panthers, eagles, rooks, ravens, etc., had devoured the carcasses, and abandoned the place for other prey.
Sivu 170 - There is something peculiar, moreover, in the way that this fierce face surmounts a body extraordinarily wiry, lithe, and muscular. It ends a remarkably long and slender neck in such a way that it may be held at right angle with the axis of the latter.
Sivu 65 - He is a gross feeder, devouring nearly as much clover as a full grown sheep; he eats to give him strength to dig holes, and then he digs holes to give him an appetite for more clover. He takes supreme delight in tearing the bark from young fruit trees, and will wipe out entirely a good sized bean patch in a day...
Sivu 49 - At that period he supposed there could not have been less than ten thousand in the neighborhood of the spring. They sought for no manner of food but only bathed and drank three or four times a day and rolled in the earth, or reposed, with their flanks distended, in the adjacent shades, and on the fifth and sixth days separated into distinct droves, bathed, drank, and departed in single files, according to the exact order of their arrival. They all rolled successively in the same hole and each thus...
Sivu 35 - Another peculiarity of the elks that used to frequent the Pennsylvania woods was the great size of their nostrils, and the keenness of their scent was something beyond belief. A set of elk antlers of five feet spread, and weighing from forty to fifty pounds, was not an infrequent trophy. George Rae, who was one of the great hunters of Northern Pennsylvania in his day, — and he is one of the greatest in the Rocky Mountains even to this day, in spite of his eighty-five years, — lived along the...
Sivu 181 - One was killed on the Loyalsock creek, in Sullivan county." From reports of New York city and Pennsylvania fur dealers and Shippers, It is learned that probably not over half a dozen fishers are now annually killed in this State. At the present time about the only counties where these animals are to be found are in Clearfield, Elk and probably Clinton, Potter and Sullivan, and in all of these they are reported to be very rare.