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Identifier: outing55newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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the fur-bearers. Especially in the rut-ting season they may be seen in the day- GAME AND GAME FISH IN WINTER 497 time; and at this time they also seemto lose some of their innate caution. InNew England fox hunting with houndand rifle or shotgun is an establishedindustry, and a good, hardy sport. The fox den will more often be foundnear civilization, in woodland as dis-tinguished from forest, than will that ofthe wild-cat, but, sometimes fox hunterswill bring in a wild-cat pelt. The num-ber of grouse killed by foxes is probablyexaggerated by upland hunters, but it is shoe rabbit since it makes a track ap-proximately (only) the size of a bear-paw snowshoe. This hare, very much larger than thecottontail, will most often be found inthick pine and tamarack swamps. It af-fords good sport to the winter hunterand is best hunted with hounds. Itusually leads away in a circle and tostop one at his best speed requires skilledholding. During the summer its coloris brown, gradually changing to pure
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THE TROUT STREAM IN WINTER. a fact that at times the fox captures anunwary bird. I have personally seenblood and brown-barred feathers in thewinter trail of Reynard. Wood mice and squirrels are alsosought as food—and poultry! Curiouslyenough a fox will almost never noticea man standing still, but one movement—when you raise the gun to yourshoulder—and he is only a long, redstreak over the snow. In the dead of winter even the verycommon cottontail is an infrequent sightby day, and the varying hare, nowin its white winter pelage, must be care-fully still-hunted to be seen. Whenyou hit the trail of a varying, or North-ern, hare do not think it a bear track.This animal is well named the snow- white in winter, a fine example of pro-tective coloration. The mink and otter travel during thewinter and you will sometimes see theirtrails along the frozen water courses.The otter will sometimes take an over-land trip in winter from one stream orlake to another, and its trail is unmistak-able

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