Cuassl. HARVEST MOUSE. 
Hath formed his granaries, 
Doctor Derham takes notice of this wonder 
fagacity of theirs, in providing againft that feafon 
when they would find a defect of food abroad: 
but they provide alfo for other animals: the hog 
comes in for a fhare; and the great damage we 
fuftain in our fields, by their rooting up the ground, 
is chiefly owing to their fearch after the concealed 
hoards of the field mice. 
They generally make the neft for their young 
very near the furface, and often in a thick tuft of 
crafs; they bring from feven to ten at a time. 
Lefs long-tailed field moufe, Br. Zcol. IL. 4p. 498. 
Syn. quad. No. 231. 
HIS fpecies is very numerous in Hamp- 
feire, particularly during harvelt. , 
They form their neft above the ground, be- 
tween the ftraws of the ftanding corn, and fometimes 
in thiftles: it is of a round fhape, 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 fheaves 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, 
Vou. I. K Thofe 
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29. Hare 
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