GENERAL CONTENTS. 



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Decrease of Carnivores — The Black Bear — Its Present Haunts — ^Head 

 Waters of the Ottawa — Distinct from Black Bear of Europe — 

 Period of Hibernation — Its Duration — ^Female Bear — Cubs — Hunt- 

 ing — Fur of the Bear — Indian Superstition — Migration in Search 

 of Food — ^Bear KiUed at Niagara — The Wolf — Districts which it 

 inhabits — Compared with European Wolf — Habits and Cunning — 

 Wolf-Hunting — Varieties of Foxes — The Eed Fox — Different from 

 European One — The Cross Fox — The Silver Fox — Trade in Fox 

 Skins — Great Value of Silver Fox Skin — The Lynx — Its Inoffen- 

 siveness — ^Variety in Colour of Fur — Flesh eaten by Indians — 

 Power of Swimming — ^Food — The Wolverine — The Puma — Its 

 Scarcity — Skunks in Forest — Their Odour — The Canadian Otter — 

 Erroneously described by various Writers — Distinctions between 

 it and European Otter — Its Habits — Otter Trapping — Trade in 

 Otter Skins — Young Cubs pp. 5 — 22 



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Variety of Hares in North America — Absence of Eabbits — Distinctions 

 between Hares and Eabbits — The Northern Hare — Weight and 

 Description — Winter Coat — Change of Colour — Nature of Change 

 — Doubts concerning it — ^Discrepancies of different Writers — ^Haunts 

 of Northern-Hare — Its Latitudes — Abundance in certain Districts — 

 Malformation of Incisors — Habits — ^Attacked by the Lynx — Snaring 

 and Trapping — When in Season — Poorness of Flesh — The Grey 

 " Eabbit" — Its[general Appearance — The Prairie-Hare — Its Northern 

 Limits — Abundance of Squirrels — Their Variety — Black Squirrels 

 — Excellence of their Flesh — Grey Squirrels — Chipmunks — The 

 Beaver — Former Habitations — Its Sagacity — Popular Fallacies con- 

 cerning it — Formation of Huts — Gnawing down Trees — Compared 

 with European Beaver — Its Skin — Method of Trapping — Excellence 

 of Flesh — Present Districts of Beaver pp. 25 — 38 



