Quadrupeds. 7463 



Buck-shooting in the Korea. — Forming one side of the pleasant harbour of Chusan, 

 in the Peninsula of Korea, is a long high island, familiarly known by us under the 

 name of Deer Island, alihuugh its proper appellation is Tsi-kiung-tau. On this island 

 there is a species of deer, a kind of Moschus, the size of a sheep, the male of which is 

 without antlers, and the mouth armed with very long, sharp-edged, curved, canine teeth 

 in the upper jaw. They keep very close under cover, and when driven from the shelter 

 of the dense underwood they bound wildly along, and may then he shot like hares. 

 The lower part of their haunt is shared by half-wild horses, which go in large troops, 

 snorting, prancing and neighing, or suddenly halting, and having a good long stare at 

 the intruders on their domain. Here are level grassy plains, where there are ponds 

 with teal, ducks, frogs and water-beetles ; where the mountain-springs form little 

 trickling rivulets, sometimes heard murmuring in subterranean channels under your 

 feet; where you find the Centaurea and the bird's-foot trefoil, the willow, the Iris aud 

 the pink ; where the humble-bees wander, droning over the tops of the flowers ; where 

 I capture three or four species of Apoderus, one with an egregious long neck ; where I 

 beat Balaninus from the young oaks, and a Cryptorhynchus from the Eleagnus bushes ; 

 where Melasoma is common on the willows, and two species of Euchlora on the trailing 

 Smilax ; and where the Apollo butterfly and the swallow-tail sun their gorgeous wings. 

 There are a few rude huts, with perchance a solitary woman, in the universal while 

 Korean garments, may be seen pounding millet near the low door-way, while the hus- 

 band smokes his pipe on the threshold. Higher up you come to huge stones and 

 masses of rock, all gray and green and yellow with lichens, and with Eleagnus bushes 

 growing up between them. From this you gradually make your toilsome way to Wil- 

 ford's Rest, where our weary botanist reposed awhile after gaining the summit of the 

 island. Here, among stubborn thorny Smilax and dwarf oak, and great loose stones, 

 forming a short dense scrub, are the peculiar fastnesses of the deer. Without dogs, 

 you would imagine, they were quite unapproachable. However that may be, let me 

 record, with a proud satisfaction, that no less than nine deer fell before the ardour, 

 skill and patience of my messmates. Sutherland, untiring and sagacious, slays two 

 fat bucks, after toiling and moiling all the livelong day, and now gazes on their life- 

 less forms with a smile of grim satisfaction ; a beetle-hunting Doctor, in a quiet bosky 

 dell, is startled by loud shouts from the bill-side high up among the Smilax vines and 

 oak scrub, and Warren is seen wildly flourishing a bloody knife, shouting in triumph, 

 for has he not brought down his deer and cut its throat ; down a crooked stony path, 

 panting under the carcase of a fine buck, Wilford advances, staggering but elated ; 

 while Schuckburgh comes jauntily in, a young doe slung across his shoulders, and 

 flings it down as if he had been accustomed to that sort of thing from infancy. — 

 Arthur Adanis. 



Golden Eagle nesting in Scotland. — You express a doubt (Zool. 7394) as to the 

 golden eagle breeding in Britain. From 1844 to 1847 I had the shooting over the 

 Lochalsh, a large district in the west of Ross-shire. During that time I had as many 

 as four old birds shot by one of the keepers. These birds were all shot in the spring, 

 and in one instance one of them was killed ofi" the nest, in which there were two eggs. 

 These eggs I sent to the Norwich Museum, and they are probably there now. — E. C. 

 Buxton; Dareshury Hall, Warrington, March 30, 1861. 



