The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life part 3 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 211
made, in the woods, the notesand sketches here presented. The snow, at thetime, was light and powdery, so that the minutedetails of each track were unseen, but to one witheven a slight knowledge of the subject, the sizeand general form of the marks is enough to giveall necessary information about… … FIG. I. FOOTPRINTS, IN THE SNOW, OF A DEER, A FOX, A WHITE HARE, AN ERMINE, AND TRACK OF A MOUSE. we would see them in the snow. First of all, thelarge, sharply defined tracks, ending at D, arethose of a deer; not a very large one, because themarks are small and nearly in one line. The trail marked…
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