A DUBIOUS FACT.
A curious fuct m natural hi«'o?y is re oorded m Jrceley'e lately published hook. In tome of tho Swedish lakes lar^e birds of prey are io the habit ol swooping down on the pike basking at the eurfaoe of the water. If the pike is more powerful than the bird, tbe latter, unable to extricate bis talons is borne io the bottom and drowned. The flash of the pike heals with the taloriß of the bird In its back, while the bird beoonei ooQTertod into a skclet, n which U oarried about by the pike. (>; t> skeleton, long exhibited by » pike m Lnke Wetter had acquired a greenish tinge, end wbb regarded by the fishermen as a harb* ipger of moisture. Another sVelt>tr>n, carried by a pike In Lake F ykarial, win known to the fishermen f r some tirre as the water sprite, and they fi~'d fr< m it m fear. It is said to have app9ved like the horns of an old reindeer moving /apidly through the water ; but at last the pike was caught and the water sprite Bhown to be the skeleton of a sea-eagle.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1448, 5 January 1887, Page 3
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192A DUBIOUS FACT. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1448, 5 January 1887, Page 3
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