THE OTTER. 



THE otter is found in most of the United 

 States, but is by far more numerous in the 

 South and West than elsewhere. It lives in 

 holes in the banks of streams and lakes, sub- 

 sisting principally on fish. It has its young 

 once a year, generally in the month of April, 

 having from two to four at a birth. In hunt- 



