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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. 
