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the smell of blood, he possessed one that rather liked it, and 

 found him one day " licking the bleeding carcass of a newly- 

 skinned Bok." * It has been stated that " African Horses very 

 commonly eat their own dung ; and numbers have been destroyed 

 in consequence of taking into the stomach vast quantities of 

 flinty sand." t Dr. Stockwell, writing from Ontario, Canada, 

 states : — " At certain points on the shores of Lake Huron the 

 soil is quite sterile, — that is, very sandy, — and those who attempt 

 to cultivate frequently use as compost fish caught in seines from 

 the lake. These fish are chiefly Suckers (Catastomida), Dog-fish 

 (Amiidce), Herrings and Lesser Mackinaw Trout (Coregonus 

 artedi, Le Sueur, and Salvelinus, both of the Salmonidce). Fre- 

 quently the maize which is planted in hills along with fish fails 

 to exhibit a vigorous growth when cattle are turned in to graze 

 them." But not only the cattle are attracted by the fish. " Some 

 twenty years since a gentleman in the States imported a herd of 

 a hundred and eighty Horses from the Shetlands, and was obliged 

 to keep them for some time close to tide water, where they could 

 get salt sedge grass and a diet of fish, such as they had been 

 accustomed to. Gradually they were weaned to feed upon hay 

 and grain. I have repeatedly seen Horses from this herd, or 

 their descendants, if offered a piece of raw fish devour it with the 

 greatest gusto." I Other animals embrace a fish diet with avidity. 

 In Kamschatka during the long winters, when it is difficult to 

 procure food of any kind, there is a consequent necessity of fish 

 as an article of diet for almost every living creature in the settle- 

 ments — " the Cows and Horses even not excepted." § In the 

 same country when the streams are surcharged with fish, the 

 Bears " live entirely upon Salmon. Later, when this diet fails 

 them, they take to berries, upon which they live until the time of 

 hybernation." || " There are indeed but few animals, apparently, 

 which do not live on Salmon in Kamschatka." M Gilbert White 

 has remarked " on the violent fondness for fish " possessed by 

 common house Cats, when, " of all quadrupeds, Cats are the 



* 'Eight Months in an Ox Waggon,' p. 174. 



f J. Barrow, ' Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa,' vol. i. p. 53. 



I 'Badminton Magazine,' vol. ii. pp. 840-1. 



§ Guillemard, ' Cruise of the Marchesa,' 2nd edit. p. 68. 



|| Ibid. p. 76. Ii Ibid. p. 88. 



