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pines, showed scarce a trace of .green or brown* -Their 
branches were bent down by the weight of the snow to a con¬ 
siderable angle below the horizontal plane, givixg them a 
curiously close resemblance, especially at a distance, to 
spruce or fir trees* The snow lay about six. inches deep, 
on the ..round where it had iot been intercepted in its 
fall by the trees. At first it wea fine and powdery but as 
the sun rose higher it became wet and settled i to a more 
solid and very soggy blanket which covered the ground every¬ 
where. There were many tracks of mice arid shrews, a few 
of squirrels and rabbits, and occasionally the trail of a 
fox or dog. In one place I found what I at first took 
for a Otter track. It was a furrow about eight inches 
wide and two deep with obsolete foot-prints In the bottom. 
The obscurity and apparently small size of the foot-prints 
puzzled me at first but the mystery was solved when I 
traced the furrow to a hole as large as my fist in a 
mound. The edges of the hole were smeared with fresh 
blood and rabbit* a fur. Evidently some animal of the 
weasel family and probably a mink had killed a rabbit and, 
after its usual custom, had dragged it to Its hole, moving 
backward, the carcass of its victim nv king the furrow and 
obliterating the tracks of the slayer. 
Paw several little parties of. Chickadees and 
heard a Kinglet and a number of blue Jays. Reached the 
house about 1 IV. riding back or the sled On the top of a 
load of wood. 
