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higher ground. I can tell the moment I
see the burrow which species I shd find by
the amount of earth thrown out of the holes,
in other respects this species is much like the
A. Auranus in habits – The young of this species are not
darker than the adult unlike the cinnamon
colored species – If this specié takes up
his abode under a corn shock they dig
such an extensive series of runways that it will
be difficult to capture them –

I took out of a Prairie Rattlesnake 6 large
mice – You are correct - Meadow mice is the legitimate
pray of the this snake – they can crawl in the
holes and follow them to their retreat and devour
the young – The S. vulpinus also is another
snake that destroys mice to a great extent.
I believe if these snakes - owls & hawks, wesels
and spermophiles were exerminated that the
Arvicolidae would soon overrun the prairies
to such an extent as to be a public calamity.
Reccommend then the protection of all them except
perhaps the Rattlesnake – Foxes dig up and destroy
many mice, also Prairie wolves – the Arvicolea are