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HUNTING ADVENTURES. 



distance. It very much resembles the second note uttered by the 

 tjuckoo which visits England during the summer months, and, 

 when heard in a calm morning echoing through the distant wood- 

 lands, it has a very pleasing effect. They treat all domestic dogs, 

 however large and fierce, with the utmost scorn, waiting to'^ceive 

 their attack, and then, clannishly, assisting one another, they 

 generally rend them in pieces. The domestic dogs most cordially 

 reciprocate their animosity, and abhor their very voices, at what 

 distance soever heard, even more than that of the lion, starting to 

 their feet, and angrily barking for hours. This interesting though 

 destructive animal seems to form the connecting line betweer the 

 wolf and tire hyaena. 



