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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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pulverize it betwixt your finger andthumb; so that, in dissection, if any of it has got upon thefur of the animal, or the feathers of the bird, allow it todry there, and then it may be removed without leavingthe least stain behind. The Ant-bear is a pacific animal. He is never the firstto begin the attack. His motto maybe, Noli me tan-gere. As his habits and his haunts differ materially fromthose of every other animal in the forest, their interestsnever clash, and thus he might live to a good old age, anddie at last in peace, were it not that his flesh is good food.On this account, the Indian wages perpetual war againsthim, and as he cannot escape by flight, he falls an easyprey to the poisoned arrow, shot from the Indians bow ata distance. If ever he be closely attacked by dogs, heimmediately throws himself on his back, and if he be for-tunate enough to catch hold of his enemy with his tremen-dous claws, the invader is sure to pay for his rashnesswith the loss of life. — fVaterton.
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4 AND AMERICAN RURAL SPORTS. MEADOW LARK. may be found in market. They are generally considered,for size and delicacy, little inferior to the quail, or whatis here usually called the partridge, and valued accord-ingly. I once met with a few of these birds in the monthof February, during a deep snow, among the heights ofthe Alleghany, between Shippensburgh and Somerset,gleaning on the road, in company with the small snow-birds. In the States of South Carolina and Georgia, at thesame season of the year, they swarm among the rice plan-tations, running about the yards and out-houses, accompa-nied by the Kildeers, with little appearance of fear, as ifquite domesticated. These birds, after the building season is over, collect inflocks; but seldom fly in a close compact body; their flightis something in the manner of the grouse and partridge,laborious and steady; sailing, and renewing the rapid actionof the wings alternately. When they alight on trees orbushes, it is generally on the tops of

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