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iiill^', are ofteu captured wliicU are wli(jll>' or partially 

 white. During the past five years, the writer has se- 

 cured seven specimens of albino Red Squirrels. One 

 of these was taken back of a farmer's poultry house 

 where for several da.vs he had been seen at different 

 times. When the owner of the premises first observed 

 the Squirrel he thoug^ht "it was a 'white" Weasel whichi 

 was after mice and rats," but as the brood of young 

 chickens decreased daily it was determines!' to watch 

 for the depredator. 



HIS LAST CHICKKN. 



A \niy took a good position near the old lieu and her 

 iMood. Presently a white animal was seen to come 

 from a near-by woods, and running along the fence 

 i-ails make a straight course to the lien coop, where he 

 seized a young chicken and started oif. The boy shot 

 the thief, I bought it, and reader, you can see its; 

 stuffed skin reproduced on the accompanying plate,, 

 No more chickens were stolen until a pair of bold hun- 

 gry Cooper's Hawks came that way and killed eleven, 

 inthreedays,whenthe boy succeeded in shooting them, 

 and finding their nest with five young, nearly ready to 

 Hy. This was when bounties were paid and the suc- 

 cessful bo^• got |3..^)0 for the seven hawks from a neigh 

 boring justice of the peace, who on a fonnei' occasion 

 paid fifty cejits each for the heads of several Night- 

 hawks, two Shrikes, which were called "bird-hawks;" 

 and, it is said, he also paid for and burned the heads 

 (►f turkeys and domesticated fowls, believing them to 

 be the remains of poultry and game destroying hawks 

 or owls. 



DKHTROYS MANY BIRDS. 



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