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cuous and never likely to become injurious to vegetation on account 

 of the annual decimation that occurs in their ranks by agents as 



FIG. 75. THE LONG-EARED BAT FLYING (UPPER FIGURE), THE SAME 

 HANGING (LOWER FIGURE). 



yet undetermined, though the owls, particularly the little owl (Athene 

 passerina), kills shrews. 



USEFUL AND PARTLY INJURIOUS 



BADGER. This mammiferous quadruped of the plantigrade 

 tribe must be considered too uncommon to inflict serious damage 

 upon the sportsman's or the poultry-farmer's interests. Game- 

 keepers and dog-fanciers, the first for the havoc it makes among 

 young ground and winged game, and the latter for affording cruel 

 sport, never lose opportunity of killing or capturing the badger ; 

 therefore it is not likely to become so greatly multiplied as to cause 

 much injury to crops. Indeed, the more likely outcome of its 



