. 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 . on the Scandinavian peninsula are his-torical. Their migrations, during which they destroy thegrass or grain in their path, until finally they reach the seaand perish in a vain attempt to cross it, have been recordedoften. A similar increase of rodents may take place any-where whenever their natural enemies are unduly reduced innumbers. Such cases are on record in England an
. 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 . on the Scandinavian peninsula are his-torical. Their migrations, during which they destroy thegrass or grain in their path, until finally they reach the seaand perish in a vain attempt to cross it, have been recordedoften. A similar increase of rodents may take place any-where whenever their natural enemies are unduly reduced innumbers. Such cases are on record in England and Scot-land. In Stowes Chronicle, in 1581, it is stated : — About Ilallontide last past (1580) in the marshes of Danessey Hun-dred, in a place called South Minster, in the county of Essex, theresodainlie appeared an infinite nuraljer of mice, which overwhelming thewhole earth in the said marshes, did sheare and gnaw the grass by therootes, spoyling and tainting the same with their venimous teeth in suchsort, that the cattell which grazed tliereon were smitten witli a murraineand died thereof; which vermine by policie of man could not be de-stroyed, till at the last it came to pass that there flocked together such. ■> -^^ PLATE VI. — Field or Meadow Mouse. A pioliflc and destructivespecies, lield in check by Hawks and Owls. ^
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