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Occasionally, However, the white-throated sparrow, or the common 

 peabiddy bird (F. Pennsylvanica) strikes up his piping note at 

 yarious times of the night, and is often heard when the surrounding 

 woods are suddenly lighted up by the application of fresh fuel to 

 the camp fire. The Indians say that he sings every hour. The 

 exquisite flute-like warblings of the hermit thrush (T. solitarius) are 

 often prolonged Tar into the fine nights of early summer. As a 

 general impression, however, the pleasing notes of song birds are 

 foreign to the interior solitudes of the great fir forest, whose gloom 

 is appropriately enhanced by the wilder and more mournful voices 

 of predatory birds and animals. With these imperfect remarks, I 

 close the present sketch on the night life of animals in the woods. 



The following is a fragment of a Paper read by the 

 Author before the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural 

 Science on Acclimatisation. A large proportion of the 

 matter contained therein has been omitted as irrelative 

 to the objects of this work. 



ACADIAN ACCLIMATISATION. 



Having thus adverted to the development of "Applied Natural 

 History " in other parts of the world as a practical science, and the 

 satisfactory results which have already attended such efforts, we now 

 come to consider the proper subject of this paper — the question of 

 Acclimatisation as applicable to Nova Scotia. I have so far drawn 

 attention to the advances made by the antipodal colonists in this 

 direction, to show how the objections of distance, expense, and un- 

 certainty of results, have all been put aside for ends thought worthy 

 of such sacrifices. But Australia was a country craving animal 

 immigration, her large and wealthy population demanding many of 

 the absent table luxm'ies of the old world, and her youth eager for 

 the time when the boundless forests and grassy plains should abound 

 with the stag or roe, in place of the monotonous marsupials which as 

 yet had afforded the only material for the chase. In Atlantic 

 America, on the contrary, instead of having to supplant the in- 

 digenous animals, we possess, in a state of nature, some of the noblest 

 forms of animal life, which, no longer required to supply the abori- 

 ginal Indians with their sole means of subsistence, may be called on, 



