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(N. S. vol. iii.) described a great migration of Dragonfiies which 

 he witnessed in Germany in 1839, and also mentions a similar 

 phenomenon occurring in 1816, and extending over a large 

 portion of Europe. But in these cases the movement took place 

 at the end of May, and the insects travelled due south; their 

 migrations were therefore similar to those of birds and butterflies, 

 and were probably due to the same cause. I have been unable 

 to find any mention of a phenomenon resembling the one with 

 with which we are so familiar on the Pampas, and which, strangely 

 enough, has not been recorded by any European naturalists who 

 have travelled there." 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



MAMMALIA. 



The Elk in Galicia. — At Christmas last an Elk, Alces machlis, was 

 shot in Galicia. It is now one hundred and thirty years since the last of 

 these animals was killed in Austria. It is believed that the one referred to 

 had come from Lithuania. — ' Nature,' Jan. 26, 1888. 



A new Beaver Colony in Saxony. — Since the middle of March about 

 thirty Beavers have been found at Gegenwehrsberg, above Rauies, not far 

 from Schonebeck on the Elbe, in the province of Saxony, where, for want 

 of dwellings, they have sought shelter in the bushes coveriug the Elbe 

 dam. They are now beginning to burrow under the dam, which is 

 consequently liable to be injured, and it seems doubtful therefore whether 

 they can be allowed to remain there permanently. 



Fox and Hare in unwonted proximity. — I take the opportunity of 

 relating a circumstance of apparent friendship and fraternization on the 

 part of two animals whose habits are as different from each other as possibly 

 can be — the one a Carnivore, the other an Herbivore. A short time ago, 

 just before the last frost, when the South Dorset Hounds were crossing a 

 neighbouring stubble-field between a covert they had just drawn and 

 another, when a Fox and a Hare jumped up out of a bare open pit, only a 

 few yards in diameter, and shallow enough to allow it to be cultivated. 

 The bareness of the pit makes it impossible to suppose that its two 

 occupants were unaware of each other's proximity. — J. C. Mansel- 

 Pleydell (Whatcombe). 



[It is not unlikely that the Fox was engaged in stalking the Hare, or 

 lying in ambush for it when disturbed. — Ed.] 



