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Acad Amer animals antlers Area of intergradation BANGS Beaver Biol Blarina Bost brown Bull burrows Canada canadensis canines carnassial color County Deer Dental formula Description as previously Distribution ears examined from Illinois Fauna feet GENUS Geol gray grayish HAHN hairs hind foot Hist Illinois Illinois and Wisconsin incisors Indiana interfemoral membrane Iowa JACKSON KENNICOTT killed Lake LAPHAM less LINN Lynx mammæ mammals Mephitis MERRIAM Mice Michigan Microtus Minn Minnesota molars Mole Mouse Mustela nest northern Wisconsin Nycteris occurs ONTARIO paler Patent Office Rept Peromyscus Phila Prairie premolars Proc Putorius Resources Ind River Sciurus Shrew side skull Skunks Solon Springs Sorex southern Illinois species Specimens examined Squirrel stripes SUBFAMILY SUBGENUS Suborder Surv tail vertebræ teeth Trans trees Type locality U. S. Patent Office upper usually Vilas Wash Weasel White-footed Mouse whitish winter Wisconsin woods young
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Page 89 - Cattle come as far as this. I have seen them three times and eaten of their meat. I think they are about the size of those of Spain.
Page 38 - Survey have shown that the northward distribution of terrestrial animals and plants is governed by the sum of the positive temperatures for the entire season of growth and reproduction, and that the southward distribution is governed by the mean temperature of a brief period during the hottest part of the year.
Page 90 - These Oxen are of the bignesse and colour of our Bulles, but their homes are not so great. They have a great bunch upon their fore shoulders, and more haire on their fore part than on their hinder part : and it is like wooll. They have as it were an horsemane upon their backe bone, and much haire and very long from the knees downeward.
Page 193 - OSGOOD, North Amer. Fauna, No. 28, p. 42. April 17, 1909. TYPE LOCALITY. — Michigan. RANGE.— Northeastern United States and southern Canada from northern Minnesota east through northern Wisconsin, Michigan, Ontario, Quebec, New York, and western New England. Canadian zone. *Peromyscus maniculatus abietorum (Bangs). 1896. Peromyscus canadensis abietorum BANGS, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 10, p. 49. March 9, 1896. 1909. Peromyscus maniculatus abietorum OSGOOD, North Amer. Fauna, No. 28, p....
Page 342 - ... lie on either side of the rectum, and are imbedded in a dense, gizzard-like mass of muscle which serves to compress them so forcibly that the contained fluid may be ejected to the distance of four or five metres (approximately 13 to 162 feet).
Page 321 - Lean meat should not be used, as the juice soon dissolves the gelatin of the capsule. The necessary number of poisoned baits may be prepared and carried in a tin can or pail. They should never be handled except with gloved hands or forceps. The baits may be dropped from horseback along a scented drag line made by dragging an old bone or piece of hide well saturated with the fetid scent, or they may be placed around or partly under any carcass on which the wolves or coyotes are feeding, or along trails...
Page 92 - In the days of our boyhood and youth," says this author, " buffaloes roamed over the small and beautiful prairies of Indiana and Illinois, and herds of them stalked through the open woods of Kentucky and Tennessee; but they had dwindled down to a few stragglers, which resorted chiefly to the 'barrens,' towards the years 1808 and 1809, and soon after entirely disappeared."!
Page 112 - The fox-squirrel is more solitary in its habits than the migratory squirrel. More than two old ones are rarely, if ever, found living together. In the summer and fall, the old males lead a solitary life, as they sometimes do in winter. As soon as the young are able to take care of themselves, the female usually drives them off. when the old male, which has retired to a summer residence to escape the discomfort attendant upon the rearing of a family, returns to the winter-quarters and society of his...
Page 370 - A weasel will, occasionally, remain for some time in a barn, feeding on these vermin, without disturbing the fowls. But it is never safe to trust one near the poultry-yard, for, when once an attack is made, there is no limit to the destruction. When the animal has entered stacks or barns, it has the curious habit of collecting in a particular place the bodies of all the rats and mice it has slain; thus, sometimes, a pile of a hundred or more of their victims may be seen which have been killed in...
Page 250 - Patton's office, I untied my treasures, and took out the mouse and held it for some time in my hand; it still exhibited no sign of life; but at length I thought I saw a very slight movement in one of the hind legs. Presently there was a very slight movement of the head, yet so feeble that one could hardly be sure it was real. Then there came to be some evidence of breathing, and a slight pressure of my fingers upon the tail near the body was followed by an immediate feeble movement of one of the...