. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . ■> -^^ PLATE VI. — Field or Meadow Mouse. A pioliflc and destructivespecies, lield in check by Hawks and Owls. ^. PLATE VIL — White-footed or Deer Mouse. A destructive woodmouse, tlie increase of wliicli is controlled by Hawks and Owls. VALUE OF BIBBS TO MAN. 11 a number of Owles, as all the shire was alile to yiekl, whereb}^ themarsh-holders were shortly delivered from t
. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . ■> -^^ PLATE VI. — Field or Meadow Mouse. A pioliflc and destructivespecies, lield in check by Hawks and Owls. ^. PLATE VIL — White-footed or Deer Mouse. A destructive woodmouse, tlie increase of wliicli is controlled by Hawks and Owls. VALUE OF BIBBS TO MAN. 11 a number of Owles, as all the shire was alile to yiekl, whereb}^ themarsh-holders were shortly delivered from the vexation of the saidmice. The like of this was also in Kent. This reads a little like a fable or legend, and we must bepermitted to doubt the statement as to the cause of themurraine; but the accuracy of the story, in the main, iscorroborated by the records of later occurrences of a similarnature in the same region. Childrey also records this occur-rence in his Britannia Baconica, 1()<)0, p. 14. Similar sore plagues of strange mice were experiencedin Essex again in 1(548, near Downham Market, Norfolk, in1745, and again in Gloucestershire and Hampshire in With regard to Norfolk, the following extract is ofinterest: — Once in aljout six or seven years, Hilgay, about one thousand acres,is infested with an incredi
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