so Mr Audubon's Notes on the Rattlesnake. 



even the smaller tribes will attack and chase before them the 

 larger kinds, and that those again will even defend themselves 

 from man, and often with success. Have we not all seen the 

 little robin chace a cat ? An eagle will keep off a man from her 

 nest, and a cock will attack even a lion. This being the case, 

 why should they suffer their senses to sink in sleep before a rep- 

 tile, when, with a few mere flaps of their wings, they can so 

 easily escape. After this reflection, can we for a moment ima- 

 gine, that the Creator has exposed the feathered race to such 

 dangers as the power of fascination would imply ? We may rest 

 assured, that, when snakes destroy birds, or, any other animals, 

 it is by the quickness of their motion, and the acuteness of their 

 sight, seconded by cunning and strength, but never by fascina- 

 tion. 



On the Rein-deei'. 1. Its Naturalization, in Scotland. 2. Its 

 Food. 3. Rein-deer Milk, and preparations made from it. 

 4. Speed of the Rein-deer. 5. Rein-deer eats the Lemming. 

 6, On the Furia infernalis *. 



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1. Naturalization of the Rein-deer in Scotland. 



HE question, whether or not it be possible to introduce the 

 rein-deer into this country, will probably be considered as set at 

 rest after the late failure, which has not been the only one. I 

 am still, however, unwilling to believe this ; and I cannot but 

 regret, after the activity and perseverance of Mr Bullock had 

 succeeded in bringing alive and well to this country so large a 

 herd of deer, a thing never before attempted, that his labours 

 should not have been seconded by some spirited proprietor, and 

 his views supported in the way that would have been most like- 

 ly to have crowned them with success, — the immediate removal 

 of the herd, on arriving here, to some remote and favourable 

 part of the Highlands, where the Laplander himself, the most 

 natural person for the purpose, might have undertaken the 

 charge of the herd, and been rewarded according to his care in 

 the increase of it. Had the experiment been tried in this man- 



• This account of the Rein-doer is extracted from a very interesting and amus- 

 ing work just published, which we particularly recommend to our readers,— 

 " Travels in Lapland and Sweden by Captain Brooke," published by Murray. 



