Identifier: birdnestinginnor00rain (find matches)
Title: Bird-nesting in north-west Canada
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Raine, Walter, 1861-1934
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Toronto : Printed by Hunter, Rose and Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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and thefur is ashy grey, and the tail is Ijushy. They are very plenti-ful in this district, and burrow like foxes. They are exceed-ingly swift of foot. They never attack man, even when anumber of them are together. They live on birds and smallanimals, and sometimes attack lambs and young sheep. Thereis another species of wolf found in this district, and it isespecially numerous in the wooded Red Deer River region.This is the large grey wolf. It is also found around LakeWinnipeg, in fact it frequents all the timl»er lands stretchingbetween Lake Superior and the Rocky Mountains. Thisspecies, like the wolves of Russia, has been known to attackhuman beings when pressed by hunger. The giey wolf is aslarge as a Newfoundland dog. One was killed by one of mycollectors, near Shoal Lake, Manitoba, in the following man-ner : During the spring of this year he had lost severallambs, by a wolf coming at night to his farm and taking themaway. At last this wolf got so bold as to visit the farm every
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In North-Wed Canada. 87 night, with the general result of the disappearance of a lauil >or young sheep. So one night my collector and his fatherand brother laid ready with guns for the appearance of Mr.Wolf. They tied a sheep to a fence, and erected a screen oftimber close to the sheep, and behind this they waited theapproach of the wolf. They were not disappointed, for theyat last saw his form approaching cautiously. The sheep be-gan to bleat and tried to break away from the cord, and justas the w.olf was about to seize its prey, the father and twobrothers poured a volley of shot into the carcass of the wolf,which caused him to bite the ground in agony. Then loadingtheir guns again they gave him another dose, which stretchedliim lifeless on the ground. After this .they were not troubledwith wolves again. Tlie grey wolf sometimes chases deer,Sir John Richardson saw one at Point Lake chasing a finebuck reindeer. The wolf ran down the deer and disabled itby a bite on the flank. An In

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