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Hath formed his granaries. 



Do6tor Berham takes notice of this wonderful 

 fagacity of theirs, in providing againft that feafon 

 when they would find a defed of food abroad: 

 but they provide alfo for other animals • the hog 

 comes in for a (hare; and the great damage we 

 fuftain in our fields, by their rooting up the ground, 

 is chiefly owing to their fcarch after the concealed 

 hoards of the field mice. 



They generally make the nefl: for their young 

 very near the furface, and often in a thick tuft of 

 grafs j they bring from feven to ten at a time. 



VEST, 



Lefs long-tailed field moufe, Br.Zool II, App. 498, 29. H^ar- 



^yn. quad. No. 231. 



THIS fpecics is very numerous in Eamp- 

 Jhire., particularly during harveft. 



They form their neft above the ground, be- 

 tween the draws of the (landing corn, andfometimes 

 in thiftles : it is of a round ihape, and compofed of 

 the blades of corn. They bring about eight 

 young at a time. 



Thefe never enter houfes : but are often carried 

 in the (heaves of corn into ricks ; and often a hun- 

 dred of them have been found in a fingle rick, on 

 pulling it down to be houfed. 



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