THE HILI. FOX 



though cubs are destroyed in the spring, and a 

 certain number of old foxes are shot when visiting 

 the dens at dawn or dusk, a wholesale method of 

 destroying them cannot be adopted on account 

 of the disturbance to the forest. In such regions 



GotDEN Eagi^e and Hii,i, Fox. 



foxes naturally increase, and their depredations 

 occasionally demand special measures of re- 

 taliation. Perhaps a fox drive is organised over 

 a wide extent of ground with guns posted at all 

 the likely passes, or a determined raid is made 



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