1144 Life-histories of Northern Animals 



utter a sound. Possibly he was injured at this time, as he died 

 next day. 



As the Star-nose feeds only on insects and worms, utterly 

 eschewing seeds, roots, and all things vegetable, there can be 

 no very serious charge against it. The disfigurement of lawns 

 is the only one that has ever given it local outlawry; but most 

 naturalists at least consider this fully offset by the good it does 

 as a tiller of the soil on lands where there is no other husband- 





