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Identifier: commissionersrep00onta (find matches)
Title: Commissioners' report
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Ontario. Game and fish commission Wright, Robert Ramsay, 1852-1933
Subjects: Game and game-birds Game protection Fisheries Fishes
Publisher: Toronto, Printed by Warwick & sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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for. The ears are large and thick, and densely coated with short velvety hairsoverlaid by stiff longer ones which extend to the margin of the ears. The tail is nearly two-thirds the length of the head and body, the legs areshort and robust, the feet densely covered with hair, the balls of the toes naked,and the claws distinctly visible although inserted among stiff hairs as long asthemselves. The prevailing tint of the tail is a lustroun black. The margins and exter-nal surfaces of the ears are nearly white. The sable take up their abode near the banks of rivers, and their homes aregenerally burrowed in the earth, although they are occasionally found in thehollows of trees. The food used is partly vegetable and partly of an animal nature. The fur is very valuable and much sought after, but as the sable is a cau-tious animal it is not easily caught and the skin supply is not large. The sable is not a pi-olific animal, the female producing as a rule only threeor four at a birth in June.
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