. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. .Because of its cautious and secret mannerof life, an otter will often continue tofrequent a stream for a long time, and beunsuspected. Indeed, many a stream hasheld otters from time immemorial, and yetno one has guessed this, until the comingof a pack of otter hounds has shown thevarmint up. Even that omniscient person,the dusty miller, in spite of his peculiaropportunities, was scarcely prepared to findin the thatch of his own outhouse one ofits favourite , otters often choose strangequarters, and though
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. .Because of its cautious and secret mannerof life, an otter will often continue tofrequent a stream for a long time, and beunsuspected. Indeed, many a stream hasheld otters from time immemorial, and yetno one has guessed this, until the comingof a pack of otter hounds has shown thevarmint up. Even that omniscient person,the dusty miller, in spite of his peculiaropportunities, was scarcely prepared to findin the thatch of his own outhouse one ofits favourite , otters often choose strangequarters, and though theirusual holts are drains^ caves,rocks, holes under tree roots,and withy beds, we haveknown one to frequent an iviedtree, and have bolted anotherfrom under a barn floor. Mr. Trevor-Battye has noeasy task before him in con-fining within one volume ofthe Woburn Library a work onBritish Birds, but if it is writ-ten as interestingly and con-ciselj as the above extract wecan heartily congratulate hisreaders. Sir Harry Johnstonsvolume on Mammals will be_ready
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