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Title: The Cabinet of natural history and American rural sports
Year: 1830 (1830s)
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Subjects: Zoology Hunting
Publisher: Philadelphia, John Doughty
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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t the females were so occupied in makingtheir own escape that they could not defend their youngones, each wolf seized upon a calf, strangled it, and draggedit off the field: when we had got to a little distance theyreturned and regaled themselves with their prey. Whenthey are pressed by hunger, and no hunters come to theiraid, they have recourse to another stratagem still more sur-prising. They approach five or six of a herd withoutappearing to have any design of attacking them. The buf-faloes, who do not condescend to be afraid, pay no attentionto them whatever—they neither avoid nor attack them.The wolves then single out their victim, which is always afemale, as the most delicious food, and invariably the fattestof the herd. Whilst two or three keep her attention en-gaged in front by pretending to play with her, one of thestrongest and most active seizes her behind by the teats, andwhen she turns round to drive him off, those in front fly ather throat and strangle her.—Beltrami.
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AND AMERICAN RURAL SPORTS. GROUND SQUIRREL.SCIURUS (TJl MIJl S) L YS TE RI. (Plate XV.) Sciurus Lysteri.—Rat, Sytiops. Quad. 216.—SciurusStriatus. Klein, Pull. Glires, 378.—Gjiel. Schreb.tab. 221.—Sciurus Carolinensis, Briss. Eeg. Jin. 15.5.No. 9.—Ecureuil Suisse.—Desm. 339, 5 p. 547.—Es-curieux Suisses.—Sugard-Theodat, Cunuda, P. 746.Ground Squirrel, Lawsox, Carolina, P. 124.—Cates-by, Carol. Vol. 2. p. 75.—Edwards, Vol. 4, t. ISl.Kalm, Vol. I. p. 322. L i.—Godman, Vol. 2. p. 142.Striped Dormouse, Pennant—.^rct. Zool. Vol. 1. p.126.—Hackee, United States.—J. Doughtys Collec-tion. The beautiful little animal whose biography and descrip-tion we are about relating, is known to most of the inabi-tants of the United States, being found in all districts ofthe country, as far north as the 50th parallel; its chief ha-bitation, however, appears to be in the vicinage of man,although numbers may be seen on the shores of Lakes Hu-ron and Superior. It is the first wild

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