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successive terraces of small rushes or other vegeta- 

 tion mark the receding shore line. In dry 

 seasons there is no water to be found in the dunes, 

 but one needs to dig but a few inches in these 

 hollows, and clean, sweet water seeps into the 

 pit. The fox has also learned this trick and it is 

 not uncommon to find small water-holes, dug by 

 foxes as shown by their scratch-marks and tracks. 

 These water-holes are taken advantage of by 

 other creatures and deer tracks and crow tracks 

 are often found near them. 



Another habit of the fox in the dunes is 

 digging for grubs and cutworms at the roots of 

 the grass. While the skunk makes a shallow, 

 roundish hole, the fox is likely to make a deeper, 

 narrow hole. I have seen a number of these 

 holes together and plenty of fox tracks, showing 

 clearly their origin. The habit does not seem 

 to be as common as with the skunk that pits the 

 dunes for this purpose much more extensively. 



All is game to the fox as my studies of the 

 droppings previously related showed. One Febru- 

 ary day I noticed many fox tracks near a curl- 

 ing snow drift, a drop of blood, a tuft of rabbit's 



