are owls classed as vermin?
To gamekeepers and those interested in the preservation of game, all animals such as the pole-cat, weasel, stoat, hawks, owls, &c., which destroy the eggs or young of preserved birds, are classed as  vermin , and the same term includes rats, mice, &c.t is used for enriching coal gas, as a vermin killer, in the manufacture of certain azo dyes, and in the preparation of phthalic acid (q.v.). P. 39 1), who made a collection of 50 different specimens of the vermin which infested his bedroom in Guayaquil.