To my knowledge it possesses only a single species, N.vestigator (Hersch.); and even this rival of the grave-diggers of the north is pretty scarce.

The discovery of three or four in the course of the spring was as much as my searches yielded in the old days.

This time, if I do not resort to the ruses of the trapper, I shall obtain them in no greater numbers; whereas I stand in need of at least a dozen.
These ruses are very simple.

To go in search of the layer-out of bodies, who exists only here and there in the country-side, would be almost always waste of time; the favourable month, April, would elapse before my cage was suitably populated.

To run after him is to trust too much to accident; so we will make him come to us by scattering in the orchard an abundant collection of dead Moles.