PRESERVATION OF PROVISIONS. 397 



We now come to the preservation of provisions. 



In the first place, we have the well-known " cache " of 

 Northern America — i.e. a spot wherein provisions are hidden, 

 and their locality only marked by signs intelligible to those for 

 whose use they are intended. It is, perhaps, hardly necessary 

 to mention that many creatures — such as the dog, the squirrel, 

 and most of the crow tribe — are in the habit of concealing pro- 

 visions for future use. 



In those parts of the world, however, where the rights of 

 hunters are acknowledged, any one who kills a deer, or other 

 animal of chase, and is not able to carry off the entire body, 

 can preserve it for his own use. He simply cuts it up in 

 hunter fashion, and hangs the various portions to branches of 



SPIDEE-NESTS. EGGS OF SPIDEE-NEST. PBOVISIONS HUNG TO TEEE BEAXCH. 



LACE-WDJ& FLY. 



trees, where they are out of the reach of wild beasts. Stores 

 like these, such as are shown in the illustration, are always 

 respected, and no hunter would dream of helping himself to 

 the game which was killed and dressed by another. 



Beasts of prey, however, cannot be expected to be so punc- 

 tilious, and in consequence the hunters hang their meat to 

 branches which cannot be reached. 



In Nature we find many similar examples, one or two of 

 which are given on the left hand of the illustration. 



In the centre is seen a group of eggs of the Lace-wing Fly 

 (Hemerobius) , so called on account of the delicate, lace-like 

 structure of its beautiful pale green wings. 



When the female lays her eggs she always chooses a slight 



