Chapter 16 NATURAL HISTORY

Or animal life, though abundant, there is little or nothing special to record, besides the list of birds.

Polecats and martens only exist in the old rating book, but weasels and stoats remain, as well as a profusion of their prey-hares and rabbits. Squirrels haunt the trees, and otters are occasionally found in the river. Trout, grayling, now an