CO MISCKLLAKEOUS NOTICEg. 



aninialfl by gpontaneons transverse fissure. These are the natural ways by 

 which the Hydra increases its kind; but, as Trembley discovered, it can be 

 multiplied by artificial means; divide it in any direction and two perfect Hydras 

 grow; cut them up into numerous pieces, and lo! from every section is pro- 

 duced a perfect whole; wound an adult, and where the scar is seen, there 

 sprouts out a young Hydra; and Trembley says he had several everted, "their 

 inside is become their outwde, and their outside their inside: they eat, they 

 grow, and they multiply as if they had never been turned," 



It will be seen from this brief account of the little Fresh-water Polype, 

 that the smallest thing in God's creation is "fearfully and wonderfully made," 

 worthy of the investigation of all who love to contemplate the Divine per- 

 fection as shown in His works, 



"Marvellous are thy works Lord! and that 

 My wjul kiiowcth right well!" 



Knapps Green, Aher«loJce, Novemhar 12th., 18ij2. 



{To be continued.) 



The Hare, (Lepns timidus.) — A gentleman, on whottc veracity I can rely, told mc the other 

 day that h« thot a Hare in S(!pt(!fnbor hist, which, on being opened, was found to contain five 

 young ones, I» not thin an unuHual number? — W, Waldo Coopeu, Wcst-Kagen, November 

 8th,, 1852, 



1 had a common llcdgijhog, (Urinaceug Europieua,) in confinement, and luiving hf^ard tliat 

 they would kill the common Snake, I put two into the place wh(!ro it wa», one a large one 

 and the other rather nmall; it tried to Beize the big one, hut it hissed so furiously, that the 

 Hedgehog began to coil itself up; it then seized the smaller one, which it instantly began to 

 bito, beginning at the tail. I went to call my father to. look at it, and when I came back, 

 it had got up to the neck, Imving apparently broken the whole of the back-bone, as far as 

 I could judge from feeling the Snake. The same Hedgehog would consume with avidity 

 Partridg(!s' eggs, and if 1 remember right, it would eat shells as well. The case of the 

 ilcdgehog and Hnukc happened thia Hummer.— Vhuav Bedinofikld, Ditchingham Hall, 

 November lOth., 1802. 



The Jer-Falcon, (Falco Islandicus,) on the Tees.— A fine young female specimen of the Jer- 

 Falcon was shot by Henry Bales, on(! of the Floating Ught-house keepers nt the Toes mouth, 

 on the 3nl. of Dccembi-r, 18^)2, after it had lamed itself by flying against the Floating light in 

 close ohiiso of a Wo(h1 I'igeon; but the Wood Pigeon not being so much hurt made oil' as fast 

 ati it could; and Himry JJales, to make sure work of it, shot the Falcon in the water, ('niere 

 was another largo Hawk seen about the same place a day or two after.) It was purchased by 

 r. Grc(ni, Bird and Animal rreserv<'r, of this town, and is now in the poKscssion of Crawford 

 Ncwby, Ks(i.— W. Martin, Stockton-on-Tees, December 13th., 1852. 



The Ifen Harrier, (Circus oyaneus.) — A specim(m of this bird was shot on tho 11 th. of October, 

 near this town, by Crawford Ncwby, Esq — Idem. 



Egyptian Ooone, (AnwT Egyptiacus.) — A very fine specimen of this bird was shot near Port- 

 n«!k Jjike, about a mile from this place, on the 2nd. of November, 1852, by Mr. John Gray, 

 and is now in tho possfjssion of Crawford Ncwby, I'lsq. It was in company with three others 

 of tho same Bp(!cicB. — Idem. 



flelavonian Orebe, (Podlceps cornutus.) — A specimen of this bird was shot on the 13th, of 

 November, 1852, in the lliver Tees, about two miles below this town, by F. Leach.— Idem. 



