36 COMMON BRITISH ANIMALS 



winter. This variety, according to Sir Leopold 

 McClintock, makes a winter store of food. '^ A fox 

 was observed/' he says, " to carry off eggs in his 

 mouth from an eider duck's nest, one at a time, 

 until the whole were removed, and in winter to 

 scratch a hole down through very deep snow to a 

 cache of eggs beneath/' 



