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small. As a matter of opinion, I should say that a Badger may 

 pass his whole life within a mile or two miles of his original 

 home. In Texas, Vernon Bailey found that one Badger had 

 worked all summer in a 20-acre field, and of the species in 



Fig. 231 — Right fore and hind-foot of Badger. 



Taken in Colorado, Sept. 7, 1901. (Life size.^ 



general, he says^ that, when food is scarce, they become great 

 travellers, "sinking a house in the earth wherever sleeping- 

 time overtakes them." 



In early days there was at least one Badger for every abun- 

 square mile of high, dry prairie in Manitoba and perhaps one- ^^'^^ 

 third as many on the heavy clay prairies of the Red River 

 Valley, which would give a Badger population for the Province 



' N. A. Fauna, No. 25, pp. 184-5. 



