. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders. Zoology. 166 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AXD large, bushy, long-haired, black, and terminates in a bufE-white tuft. He is the most deliberate little beast that ever prowled along the highway. A moonlit night is apparently his dehght, and if we meet him then he is more easily recogmzed by his measured tread and cat-like fig- ure than by his color. Even when frightened he does not break into much more than a hob- bling gallop, and a horse at an easy trot would outstrip him.* JSTot '^', infrequently he is run '^^
. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders. Zoology. 166 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AXD large, bushy, long-haired, black, and terminates in a bufE-white tuft. He is the most deliberate little beast that ever prowled along the highway. A moonlit night is apparently his dehght, and if we meet him then he is more easily recogmzed by his measured tread and cat-like fig- ure than by his color. Even when frightened he does not break into much more than a hob- bling gallop, and a horse at an easy trot would outstrip him.* JSTot '^', infrequently he is run '^^ '^'^^^ showing the wwte marks on ^ ^ the forehead and flank. down in crossing a road, and then—well, the country is perfumed within a circle a mile in circumference. As for the horse and wagon, they might as well be buried on the spot. The skunk is not only slow, but remarkably curi- ous. I observed one once, on a moonlit night, in- vestigate a box trap which I had made for squirrels; he scanned it cautiously first on one side, then on the other, peeped inside, and sniffed along the edges in the same manner as a dog. At length, after appear- * One night last summer one followed beside my horse at a slow trot for some distance without making himself Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938; Underwood, William Lyman, 1864-1929, phot. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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