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informant's words) "enough down to fill a peck-basket." However, he was 

 at last stalked by an old gunner, who got a sitting shot at close range, 

 aimed at the Eagle's head, ami knocked him over — a most inglorious 

 ending for so noble a bird !— Julian Tick (Bucknall, near Stoke-on-Trent). 



Adders Swallowing their Young. — The following incident was 

 observed (as well as I can remember, in September, 1874) by myself, my 

 brother Mr. B. Lancaster Rose, and Mr. George C.L.Lenox: — When 

 shooting on Mr. Lenox's moor, near Newton Stewart, in Wigtonshire, one 

 of us discovered an Adder coiled up on a sunny bank on the moor. Upon 

 his calling to the others of us, we all gathered round, and we then saw the 

 Adder, which by this time had been disturbed, with several young Adders 

 round her. We then distinctly saw her open her mouth and allow the 

 young to crawl down her throat, after which she was killed by having her 

 head crushed with the heel of a shooting-boot. Having seen the young go 

 down her throat, and being still able to see the movements of them inside 

 her, one of us cut off her head, and some of the young thereupon crawled 

 out of that end of the body. We then laid her body open through its entire 

 length and found more young Adders, which were quite able to strike at the 

 point of a stick when irritated by it. We all distinctly remember the above 

 circumstances, and are quite certain that not only did the young Adders 

 first crawl down their mother's throat, but also came out again from the 

 head end of the body after the bead itself had been cut off. We are quite 

 certain that they were in the stomach, and not in utero. Until quite 

 recently we were not aware that it was otherwise than an admitted fact that 

 Adders swallow their young in a moment of apparent danger, or we should 

 certainly have taken the necessary steps at the time fur preserving the 

 bodies of the Adder and her young. — Georgi A. St. Croix Rose; 

 corroborated, B. Lancaster Rose, Geo. Lennox Lenox (Rayners, Penn, 

 Bucks, Sept. 1882). 



Grants ln aid of Zoological Science. — Amongst the various 

 monetary grants for next year, made by the British Association at its 

 recent meeting at Southampton in aid of scientific research, we observe in 

 the department of Biology the following : — General Pitt-Rivers, for Photo- 

 graphs of the Races and principal Crosses in the British Isles, ATO ; Mr. 

 Stainton, Record of Zoological Literature, £100 ; Mr. J. Cordeaux, 

 Researches on the Migration of Birds, £20 ; Prof. Ray Lankester, Table 

 at the Zoological Statiou at Naples, £80 ; Dr. Pye-Smith, Scottish 

 Zoological Stations, £25 ; Sir J. Hooker, Exploriug Kilimandjaro and the 

 adjoining Mountains of Eastern Equatorial Africa, £500 ; Mr. R. Meldola, 

 Investigation of Loughton Camp, Essex, £10 ; Mr. P. L. Sclater, 

 Natural History of Timor-Laut, £50. 



