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by the smaller gnawing animals. He has repeatedly found them 

 half-gnawed up by the various kinds of field-mice so numerous 

 in our forests. From the number of its skins brought to 

 market, and calculating the deer destroyed since the settle- 

 ment of the country, an imperfect notion may be formed of 

 the aggregate numbers and productiveness of its species. 

 De Kay has made a strange blunder in his Natural History of 

 New York, in saying " it does not appear to extend into 

 Canada ;" for it is most plentiful in both the Upper and Lower 

 Province. 



