. Illustrated natural history : comprising descriptions of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., with sketches of their peculiar habits and characteristics . Zoology. 90 the bottom; its 1 jad like that of a fox, but its ears are round and shorter; its eyes are large, of a yellowish green, and over them there is a black and transverse stripe; its snout is sharp; its tail is thick, but tapering towards a point, and marked alternavely from one end to the other with black and white and brownish rings, and is at least as long as the body; its fore legs are much shorter than
. Illustrated natural history : comprising descriptions of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., with sketches of their peculiar habits and characteristics . Zoology. 90 the bottom; its 1 jad like that of a fox, but its ears are round and shorter; its eyes are large, of a yellowish green, and over them there is a black and transverse stripe; its snout is sharp; its tail is thick, but tapering towards a point, and marked alternavely from one end to the other with black and white and brownish rings, and is at least as long as the body; its fore legs are much shorter than the hind ones, and both are armed with five strong, sharp claws. This animal, while eating, usually supports itself on its hind legs, and uses its paws to hold its food, and it can open an oyster with the utmost dexterity. Poultry are very favorite objects of its attack, and it is said to be as destructive in a farm-yard as any fox, for it only devours the heads of the murdered fowl. Like the fox, it prowls by night. If water be near, it generally dips its food into it. By its pointed claws it is enabled to climb trees with great facility. It runs up the trunk ^ith the same swiftness that it moves over the plain, and frolics about to the. extremity of the branches with great security and ease: on the ground, indeed, it rather bounds than runs, and its motions, though singularly oblique, are yet always' quick and expeditious. The Badqer This harmless and much-injured animal (which is often subjected to such ill treatment that the term " bad- gering" a person is used to express irritating him in every possible way) is found throughout Europe and Asia. It is not now very common in England, but is frequently found in Scotland and Ireland. The Badger lives at the bottom of deep burrows which it excavates, and in which it passes all the day, sleeping on a very comfortable bed of hay and grass. When the evening approaches it seeks its food, Tonsisting of roots, fruit, insec
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