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92 ALGERINE NOTES.
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The Jackal Jackals Are Very Numerous, No...
Another clay a hedgehog was p - laced before the saine ichneumon , and was attacked immediately . Instead of flying or defending itself
it burst out into piercing screams , and continued to do so long after it -was separated from its enemy . I frequently placed these animals
together , and the hedgehog always uttered the same piercingscreams at the sight alone of the ichneumon . The hedgehog's cries
have some likeness to the mewings of a cat and the wailings of an infant , but are much more piercing . I often heard them in my
nocturnal wanderings , and I could not explain them before seeing the struggle between these two animals . Does the hedgehog cry only
when it is attacked by the ichneumon ? I ana inclined to believe so . I saw a great many of them in Europe and Africa seized and killed
by dogs , and I never heard them cry in this peculiar manner ; they only uttered a few grunts . Snakes do not fascinate their prey
hy their aspect ; they fascinate it by their will , and by putting forth a kind of magnetic fluid , but above all by staring at it , and by
certain movements of the neck and body . I saw , near Constantine , in 1843 a tomtit flutter for some minutesand then fly into the
mouth , of a cohiber . At the very same tim , e some storks hovered hard h . I wished to render the snake harmless ; I therefore broke
y its spine , and left it upon a stone . A young * stork came and looked at it without daring- to seize it . She flew to the town and came
back again accompanied by a larger one , probably her father or -anotherthis last stooped over the cohiber and carried it off towards
its own ; nest , upon a house in the town . The snake did not attempt to defend itself . Every snake , whether venomous or not , taken by
• a stork , appears to lose its volition , and does not try to bite . * _SMAIiIt GAME .
The Arabs employ a curious method of hunting partridges , hares , and starlings . Besides the gunthey use small heavy stickswhich
either on horseback or on foot they , cast at the partridges or , hares as they fl . They are very skilfuland a single blow is always
sufficient to y bring down the game . , In tlie neighborhood of the Saharagood horsemen pursue the hare at full gallop , and endeavor
to place , it between the horse ' s legs ; then suddenly throwing themselves from the horse to the ground and extending their burnous ,
they catch the hare . Some years ago I saw the hunters of the tribe of Drariak hunting * partridges in the following manner : —They
liad a large piece of calico , fixed with two poles upon the ground ; on this calico was painted some red coloror the portrait of a donkey
or a panther . A hole was made throug , h the calico . The hunter passed his gun through the hole and waited . A fellow-hunter
caused the partridges to rise . Then the birds , seeing the calico , came near itlooking at it with a kind of fascinationand the man
concealed behind , his screen fired without stirring . The , partridges flew to some distance and returned to the same place till the whole
covey was slain , then the man folded his screen and picked up his
92 Algerine Notes.
92 ALGERINE NOTES .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 92, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/20/
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