Part 27

Otter, and big trout, 106 ----, and dabchick, 12 ----, and "red" fish, 101 ----, and water-vole, 86-89, 101 ----, fighting terrier, 42 ----, food of, 15, 35, 47, 48 ----, hunting methods of, 20 ----, inhabiting drain-pipe, 9 ----, in winter, 15, 47 ----, migrating to sea, 46 ----, playing in heavy stream, 33, 34 ----, position of, when sleeping, 33 ----, related to weasel, 22 ---- -cub, capturing salmon, 22 ----, described, 21 ----, learns to swim, 9 ---- -cubs, at play, 11 ---- -hounds, 36 ---- -hunt, 37-39, 41-44, 84

Owl, brown, described, 385, 386 ----, and fox-cub, 205, 214 ----, and water-vole, 88, 89 ----, attacks hedgehog, 385, 386 ----, preying on field-voles, 157

Owls, as friends of farmer, 169

Owls, inhabiting farm buildings, 7

Philip, the poacher, 429-443

Polecats, enemies of young hedgehogs, 384

Rabbit, burrowing in badgers' "set," 314, 315

Rabbits, clearing tracks, 418

Rat, brown, attacked by water-voles, 123 ----, ----, habits of, 64, 110 ---- -hunting, by riverside, 58-60

Rats, migration of, 110

"Redd" of salmon, 99

Salmon, migration of, 95, 96 ---- -fishing, experiences in, 26-30 ---- -pool, seldom visited, 25 ---- -spawn, destroyers of, 99 ---- - ----, guarded by salmon, 98, 100, 101

Sheep-dog, and otter, 17

Sorrel, as medicinal 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