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inlly, are often cJip(ured wliich are wliulljk' 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 days he had been seen at different 

 times. When the owner of the premises first observed 

 the Squirrel he thought "it was a 'white' Weasel which 

 was after mice and rats," but as the brc>od of young- 

 chickens decreased daily it was determined to watch 

 for the depredator. 



HIS LAST CHICKEN. 



A l)oy took a good position near the old hen and her 

 brood. Presently a white animal was seen to come 

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

 rails make a straight course to the hen ooop, where he 

 seized a young chicken and started off. The boy shot 

 I he thief, I bought it, and reader, you can see its 

 stuffed skin reproduced on the accompanying plate, 

 Xo more chickens were sto-len until a pair of bold hun- 

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

 inthreedays.whenthe hoy succeeded in shooting them, 

 and finding their nest with five young, nearly ready to 

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

 cessful boy got .f3..50 for the seven hawks from a neigh- 

 boi-ing justice C'f the peace, who on a former occasion 

 paid fifty cents each for the heads of several Night- 

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

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

 of turkeys and domesticated fowls, believing them to 

 be the remains of poultry and game destroying hawks 

 or owls. 



DESTROYS MANY BIRDS. 



.MMiouiLili tlic Red S(|iiirrel will eat mast, cereiils. 



