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than three or four daysatatime. They first appeared to become somnolent 
on the 81st of October: four weeks afterwards they again became lively, and 
mixed quantities of leaves and grass with their hay beds. I weighed them 
about once a week, with the following results in pounds and ounces :— 
Tb. oz. tb. oz. tb. oz. tb. oz. 
February, 1875.—Male -_ eo 1 143 1 133 — 
Mareh—Male- - - - - - 1 12} — 111 — 
May—Male - - - - - - 2 43 2 3 ay OT 2. - 
June—Male = -| - -~ - 114 — 2 4 2 4 
Female - - - — — £10 — 
July—Male - - - - 2 64 2 12 2 13 115 
HeMmaAleo gee sn og Oe a laut) p hea 1138 
August—Male - - - - - 2 1 2-3 2 24 a 
Female - - - ies ap! 1 123 1 123 al 
September.—Male - - - - 2 2 2 2 — 2 2 
Female- - - fea 112 — 1 114 
October.—Male - - - - 114 1 13 114 113 
iemaloy @eaere ey 3) ol 29 1 9 1 14} 1 153 
November—Male - - - - 1 103 1 10% 1 103 
Female E 1 9 1h at) Yr 9 1 93 
December.—Male - - - - 1 8} 1 83 1 8 1 8 
Female => wali 46 Lows ak? aw 
January, 1876.—Male - - - 1 7} i aes Tae pats! 
Female - - 1 63 1 63 — — 
The female died on the 9th of January, 1876, and the male on the 8th of 
February next following. I have had other hedgehogs that died. There 
must be something wanting to their health in an ordinary garden; and 
T have concluded that it is not right to keep them in confinement.—A/fred 
Webb; 74, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin, February 8, 1876. 
[I observed the mistake in the Second Edition of Bell’s ‘ Quadrupeds’ on 
the very day of publication, and wrote to the author respecting it. With that 
obliging courtesy with which he has ever received any observation of mine, 
Mr. Bell immediately admitted the error, and had a slip printed for pasting 
in each copy of the work; this was doing every thing in his power, and as 
the error does not occur in the first edition, we may assume it was intro- 
duced by his assistant editors: it was fully noticed at the time in the 
‘Zoologist.’ The weights are interesting, showing that hedgehogs are 
heavier in summer than in winter, and also that the males are almost 
continuously heavier than the femsles.—Hdward Newman.] 
Wild Cat.—In the ‘ Zoologist’ for February (S. 8. 4791) I note Captain 
Hadfield’s communication on the wild cat. It may interest you to know 
that for some weeks past a pair (male and female) of the veritable Felis Catus 
have been exhibited alive in Glasgow, and have called forth a good deal of 
local discussion. They were brought forward at a meeting of our Society—the 
Natural History Society of Glasgow (vide ‘Glasgow Herald’ of 29th January) 
