BIBLIOTHECÆ ANIMALIS

the hazel mice had moved to the field to seek their food there; others, however, thought that the earth had received much moisture due to the wet winter, and therefore the mice had generated quickly and so frequently. The author considers them a punishment from God.

Beck, Joh. Jodoc.: Tractatus de jurisdictione forestali Treatise on forestry jurisdiction, concerning forestry authority, forest rights, and the ban on hunting, as it is practiced today in the Holy Roman Empire, both in one's own territory and in foreign ones. 4t. Nuremberg 1737.

Concept, short and thorough, of noble hunting, in which, besides the hunter's terminology, everything a hunter needs to know about high and low hunting, as well as forest, large and small game matters, is dealt with, along with an appendix on fishing and two useful registers. 8v. Nordhausen 1730.
--- 1733.
--- 1742.

• 3rd and expanded edition. 8v. Ibid. 1745.
  Deals with wild animals, both noble and ignoble, and with field, forest, and water poultry.