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are scattered — to come and steal the poultry and lambs 

 or yoiinji: pigs of the farmer, which the other crafty 

 Fox allowed to live unmolested. Naturally the result 

 of this is that Foxes are, very generally, despised by 

 farmers and poultry raisers, and they, not unwisely, 

 destroy these ''pesky brutes." 



SOME OF HIS NUMEROUS VICTIMS. 



Sportsmen who have taken the pains to investigate 

 the habits of Foxes, particularly the Bed Fox, abhor 

 them and urge their extermination, because it has been 

 ascertained that where these marauders are abundant 

 game of all kinds decreases with astonishing rapidity. 

 The fact is well established that Foxes destroy, with 

 indiscriminate greed, almost all species of desirable 

 game — birds and mammals — which they can master. 

 The fact that they will kill young fawns is beyond dis- 

 pute and shows that the do« has in the artful Fox, as 

 well as the sneaking Wildcat, foes which need con- 

 stant watching. If it was customary for crafty and 

 sagacious Foxes to hunt in packs, like Wolves do, there 

 unquestionably would be a much greater paucity of 

 Virginia Deer than at present exists in Pennsylvania. 

 I have in my museum a Black Bear, about as big as a 

 large house cat, which was obtained from a woodsman 

 who said he found it at a Red Fox's den. 



SOME ANIMALS FOXES KILL. 



Among the numerous kinds c^ wild birds and mam- 

 mals which Foxes destroy, remains of the following 

 have been found in their stomachs or at their dens: 



