Badger. [ Frontispiece. THE BADGER A MONOGRAPH BY ALFRED E. PEASE, M.P. AUTHOR OF "THE CLEVELAND HOUNDS AS A TRENCHER-FED PACK," "HORSE BREEDING FOR FARMERS," ETC. LONDON LAWRENCE AND BULLEN, Ltd. 16, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C. 1898 All rights reserved Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, London & Bungay....

I do not know of the existence of any monograph on the Badger, ancient or modern, in English or any other language. Nor have I been able to find any adequate description in any work on natural history or British fauna of this the largest, and by no means the least interesting, of the real wild animals that still exist in England and Wales. So that, however unfitted I may be to write a scientific treatise on the last of the bear tribe that we have yet with us, I have ventured to think that my own

The badger ( Meles taxus , or Ursus meles ) is known under various aliases, viz. the Brock (Danish Broc , Erse Broc , Welsh Brock ), the Pate, and the Grey. Of these the Brock is perhaps the commonest, and is the name most used in the north of England. There is an expression common in the north that would lead the ignorant to believe that a badger perspires, or sweats, viz. "sweating like a brock." In Yorkshire I often hear a man say, "Ah sweats like a brock," and the user of this elegant metaph

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