A BEAVER FEEDING ON THE BARK OF A TREE. 

 Courtesy of Josef Brunner. 



About fifteen minutes later, one or more half grown beaver 

 came out of the house and swam about or followed their par- 

 ents to the feeding ground a quarter of a mile to the north. 

 These smaller animals I concluded were the young of the 

 preceding season, about fifteen months old at the time of 

 observation. I think there were four of them; once I saw 

 three close together. 



Occasionally a beaver only the size of a muskrat came out 

 of the house and, from the anatomy of the female and the 

 number of yearlings, I. concluded that there were at least four 

 'of these little ones, but I never saw them all at the same time. 

 However, every evening, between six and half past, these 

 babies set up a kind of whine, which very much resembled 

 the low cry of a child. 



From the foregoing observations, I reasoned that the house 

 on Poplar Point contained ten beaver: the two parents, four 

 yearlings, and four young of the season, perhaps born some 

 time in May. 



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