Fur-bearing Animals: A Monograph of North American Mustelidæ, in which an Account of the Wolverene, the Martens Or Sables, the Ermine, the Mink and Various Other Kinds of Weasels, Several Species of Skunks, the Badger, the Land and Sea Otters, and Numerous Exotic Allies of These Animals, is Coributed to the History of North American MammalsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1877 - 348 sivua |
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American Badger anal glands animal appear Audubon back upper Badger Baird blackish body bones border bullæ burrow canadensis canines characters claws color condyle Conepatus constriction convex cusp Dict digits ears emargination Enhydris Ermine erminea feet Ferret foina foramen fore fossorial genus Geol Gray Gulo habits hairs head hind Hist hydrophobia inches incisors inner length less Lutra Lutreola Mamm Marten martes mastoid meatus Meles mephitica Mephitis Mink molar Mustela Mustelidæ nasal Naturg nearly North American nuchal spot oblique occipital outer palate peculiar pelage Pine Marten portion posterior premolar Putorius Quad region Sable sagittal crest Säug scarcely Sea Otter sea-otter sectorial side skin skull Skunk smaller species specimens Spilogale Stoat stout stripe subfamily tail tail-vertebræ Taxidea teeth tion tooth trap upper molar usually vison Viverra vulgaris Weasel width Wolverene Zoöl zygomatic zygomatic arch
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Sivu 321 - No, I pray Sir, save me one, and I'll try if I can make her tame, as I know an ingenious gentleman in Leicestershire, Mr. Nich. Seagrave, has done ; who hath not only made her tame, but to catch fish, and do many other things of much pleasure.
Sivu 322 - Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings, or lying half in and half out of the water, others were rolling themselves in the sun on the sandy bank, uttering a shrill whistling noise as if in play. I was told that most of the fishermen in this neighbourhood kept one or more...
Sivu 313 - If seen, and pursued by hunters on these journies, it will throw itself forward on its belly, and slide through the snow for several yards, leaving a deep furrow behind it. This movement is repeated with so much rapidity, that even a swift runner on snow-shoes has much trouble in overtaking it. It also doubles on its track with much cunning, and dives under the snow to elude its pursuers. When closely pressed, it will turn and defend itself with great obstinacy.
Sivu 322 - ... bank, uttering a shrill whistling noise as if in play. I was told that most of the fishermen in this neighbourhood kept one or more of these animals, who were almost as tame as dogs, and of great use in fishing, sometimes driving the shoals into the nets, sometimes bringing out the larger fish with their teeth. I was much pleased and interested with the sight. It has always been a fancy of mine that the poor creatures whom we waste and persecute to death for no cause, but the gratification of...
Sivu 221 - The Indians love to eat their Flesh which has no manner of ill Smell when the Bladder is out.
Sivu 284 - ... body. Early in the spring, however, when they first begin to stir abroad, they may be easily caught by pouring water into their holes ; for the ground being frozen at that period, the water does not escape through the sand, but soon fills the hole, and its tenant is obliged to come out.
Sivu 53 - River, on one occasion, a very old Carcajou discovered my Marten road, on which I had nearly a hundred and fifty traps. I was in the habit of visiting the line about once a fortnight; but the beast fell into the way of coming oftener than I did, to my great annoyance and vexation.
Sivu 314 - The otters ascend the bank at a place suitable for their diversion, and sometimes where it is very steep, so that they are obliged to make quite an effort to gain the top; they slide down in rapid succession where there are many at a sliding place. On one occasion we were resting...
Sivu 108 - Dorsetshire, was riding over his grounds, he saw, at a short distance from him, a kite pounce on some object on the ground, and rise with it in his talons. In a few moments, however, the kite began to show signs of great uneasiness, rising rapidly in the air, or as quickly falling, and wheeling irregularly round, whilst it was evidently endeavouring to force some obnoxious thing from it with its feet.
Sivu 131 - Wherever an ermine has taken up its residence, the mice in its vicinity for half a mile round have been found rapidly to diminish in number. Their active little enemy is able to force its thin vermiform body into the burrows, it follows them to the end of their galleries, and destroys whole families. We have on several occasions, after a light snow, followed the trail of this weasel through fields and meadows, and witnessed the immense destruction which it occasioned in a single night.