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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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e, mattedtogether with strong and thornyvines, is their favorite lodging.Into one of these hollow logs adrove of twenty or thirty willenter at night, each one backingii:i, the last one to enter standingwith his nose to the entranceand acting as sentinel. On dark, drizzly days theynever leave their lodgings, andit is on these days that thefarmers who have suffered bytheir ravages on grain-crop andstock, succeed in putting an endto many of their enemies. Assoon as daylight appears andthe protruding snout and watch-ful eyes of the sentinel on dutycan be seen, a sharp report of arifle is heard; with a spring thesentinel leaps out and soon rollslifeless upon the ground. In-stantly a low grunt is heard,and another snout and sharppair of eyes appear in theopening. A flash, a report, andout he leaps to his death, also;thus they go on till everylodger is disposed of. Of all animals the Peccaryalone, it is said, resists the terrorof the gun, its flash and reportserving only to enrage him. m i ~
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I THE PECCARY. (3T*His interesting animal, whichIS of common occurrencethroughout the forests ofSouth America, roams throughthe woods in large herds and is con-stantly migrating, being often drivenby scarcity of food to make longjourneys. Rendgger, the well knownnaturalist, states that one may followthe Peccaries for days without seeingthem. In their wanderings they keepto the open country, which ordinarilythey rarely frequent, and even streamscannot stop them. If they reach afield they cross it at a run, and if theyarrive at the banks of a river theydo not hesitate but swim at onceacross it. They have been seen crossing theParaguay river at a place where itrequires about a half hour to do so.The herd keeps together in a closethrong, the males in advance, eachmother having her young behind her.The noise made by the animals can beheard a long distance, not only onaccount of the dull, hoarse soundswhich they make, but still more byreason of the cracking of the deadbranches which they br

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