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PROTECTION AGAINST ANIMALS. 



which destroyed the 

 young plantations on 

 thousands of acres in 

 Germany. The destruc- 

 tion is greatest when it 

 collects in swarms and 

 wanders from place to 

 place. Voles and mice 

 are specially destructive 

 in forest nurseries. 

 A description of the 



Fig. 46. Apple-tree gnawed by hares (a i), Fig. 44. Beech Fig. 45. Alder 



and by mice (b c) (nat. size). gnawed by gnawed by 



mice (nat. mice (nat. 



size). size). 



damage done in 1814 by this species and the long-tailed field- 

 mouse is given in Nicholls' * account of the Forest of Dean. 



* Published by John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1858. 



