. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. t, which toreopen his heart and killed him almostimmediately. This is the last of thethirty-one lions I have shot, and thefirst and only one of these animalsthat I have shot from a tree. Hewas a fine full-grown animal, just inhis prime, with a good mane for acoast lion, very thick set and heavyin build, and enormously fat. My firsttwo bullets had struck him close to-gether just below the tail, and eitherwould probably have killed him hadit been a solid projectile, but beingexpanding bullets they had probablynot penetrated be
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. t, which toreopen his heart and killed him almostimmediately. This is the last of thethirty-one lions I have shot, and thefirst and only one of these animalsthat I have shot from a tree. Hewas a fine full-grown animal, just inhis prime, with a good mane for acoast lion, very thick set and heavyin build, and enormously fat. My firsttwo bullets had struck him close to-gether just below the tail, and eitherwould probably have killed him hadit been a solid projectile, but beingexpanding bullets they had probablynot penetrated beyond the found subsequently, on examiningthe place where he had been lyingin the grass at the foot of the ant-hill,that he had vomited great lumps ofthe meat- and skin of a wildebeest onwhich he had been feasting the pre-ceding night. My third bullet hadstruck him too far back, behind thekidneys, and passing just below the backbone had momentarily paralysed his hind-quarters, causing him to fall when hit and subsequently to show weakness in thehind I let liim coi>?e on to within abouG lifty j uds ot tliL tic?whicli I was peichcd LONQ = EARED OWL. Our coloured plate this month is from a photograph, by Mr. E. B. Lodge, of theLong-eared Owl (Asio otus). Although, like the poqr, always with us, its numbers arcconsiderably increased during the Autumn by migrations from the Continent. It is ahandsome bird with somewhat cat-like colouring, and large round, fiery, yellow eyeswhich give it a rather uncanny appearance. It lays its eggs very early (sometimeswhile the snow is still on the ground) in an old squirrels drey or in the desertednest of a crow, rook, heron, magpie, etc. Its food consists chiefly of mice, rats, andinsects. HOME LIFE IN BIRD=LAND. By Oliver G. Pike. [The following extracts from Hillside, Iloek and Dale : Bird-Life Pictured with Pen and Camera* are moreeloquent tributes to the value and interest of the book than anything that we could say in its
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