cinal herb for wild animals, 335

Sport, winter, 54

Squirrel, harvesting only ripe seeds and nuts, 105
----, inquisitive, 92

Stoats, following rats in migration, 110

Stone-fly, 20

Teal, 31

Terrier, worsted by otter, 44

Thrush, autumn song of, 24
----, defending young against hedgehog, 405

Trick, poacher's, to capture hare, 276

Trout, an old, carnivorous, 95
----, habit of, in spring, 19

Viper, attacked by hedgehog, 397
----, enemy of young hedgehogs, 398

Vixen, dispossessing another of "breeding earth," 201
----, life spared by hounds, 219
----, routing terrier from "breeding earth," 191

Vixen-cubs, quicker to learn than fox-cubs, 210

Voles, see _Bank-voles, Field-voles, Water-voles_

Water-shrew, described, 93
----, food of, 93, 94, 106, 107
----, habits of, 93, 94

Water-vole, and otter, 86-89
----, and owl, 89, 118
----, and trout, 94, 125
----, as singer, 79-82, 89
----, constructing nest, 121, 122
----, described, 121
----, enemies of, 79
----, food of, 71, 105, 106
----, habits studied, 80
----, home of, 68, 69, 103, 109, 110, 117, 126
----, love episodes of, 117-120
----, methods of fighting, 119, 123
----, winter storehouse of, 105, 109, 126

Water-voles, attacking brown rat, 123

Weasel, ferocity of, 76
----, food for fox-cub, 213

Weasels, following rats in migration, 110

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