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ALGEKINE NOTES. 93
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The Jackal Jackals Are Very Numerous, No...
Al game iers . in During innumerable * the winter flocks , starlings ; they rest arrive at ni in ght the on nei reeds ghborhood or bushes of .
The g Arabs _apiDroach them , bearing large vessels filled with hot tar , which bmeans of long brooms they sprinkle over the birdswhich
fall unable y to fly . The next morning the hunters gather them , up in large numbersand sometimes several hundreds are caught . At
Lake Alloula the , hunters kindle a fire in a boat at some distance from the landothers on shore awake the starlings perched up on
the reeds and , bushes . The flocks fly directly forward to the light of the boatthen the men in the boat blow out the lire , and the
birds suddenl , y deprived of light fall into the -water and are drowned . For such _sjDort it is necessary that the night be obscure .
There is little to say about the storks , unless that they are rebelieve spected those by the birds Arabs are on sometimes account of animated their utilit by y , the and souls because of their they
ancestors . The storks permit the Arabs to approach them within nests some become paces , but noAV are and more then cautious an inconvenience before the to Europeans the neighb . orhood Their
for the snakes which they carry to their young ones run away and , enter the houses ; also the incessant clapping of their bills produces
birds a very hovered disagreeable for several noise . hours At over Medea the , i town n 1842 . , On large a flocks sudden of two these of
, them rushed at a third , struck it with their beaks , and dashed it down into the yard of a house inhabited by a military chemist . It had
its were wing prevented broken— from its executioners killing it by pursued the master it into of the the very house yard . , The but
gentleman , took care of the wounded bird and put it in a gallery . Then the executioners , during three days , while their fellows
continued their migrations towards the south , actually remained at Medeaattempting to enter the yard and to strike the victim . I
saw the , -wounded bird : it became tame , and lived many years . The ichiieumon is perhaps the most courageous of all carnivorous
animals . It does not heed the size or kind of its adversary . In domesticity it makes itself respected by foxes dogs and it catches cats . In hares the
more rabbits savage useful , life snakes it in fi , a g lizards hts house against , rats than , j hed a ackals cat gehogs . and Many , and cats birds : are . indifferent It would be to ,
mice and rats : the ichneumons never . In Martinique and St . Lucy , sn and akes the Antillas When they , they wish would to wat be ch very their valuable prey they against rise upon venomou their s
hind When legs . they , and have can to stand pass in throug that position h a bush like y hed a bear ge , they or a push kangaroo aside : small
the that branches it is almost with impossible the fore legs for , and a dog pass or throug any quadruped h such a to follow space
them . The sharpened form of their head enables them to pursue
lizards and snakes into their holes .
Algekine Notes. 93
_ALGEKINE NOTES . 93
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 93, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/21/
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