THE SABLE. Thia =ii.iw.i, i^^nd .a the ^olde. po.t.ons of As.a a-d North Americans zealously hunted because of the great value of Its fur. It is 



most appropriately depicted in the snow, where one of these animals, having killed a Squirrel, seems to be called upon to defend its prey from a hungry 

 brother, which, from the position of its claws, seems inclined to fight for a sharS of the booty. The animal in the upper part of this picture shows the mark- 

 ings most prized by the Sable hunter : the lower part of the neck yellow, the cheeks gray and the rest of the fur nearly black. (MttsUla zideUina.) 



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