Notes and Comments 
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From a Photograph. 
A COW THAT WAS FOSTER MOTHER TO TWO LAMBS. 
On page 38 is a little photograph (by 
Miss C. Percival-Wiseman) of 
a mother hedgehog and _ her 
family of four piglings. In 
their wild state the nest made by the 
parents is a really wonderful piece of con- 
struction. Ivy leaves, beech leaves, nettle 
stems, dead grass, and other vegetable matter 
A Domestic 
Scene. 
are collected together and made into a 
home which proves quite impervious to 
all inclemencies of 
weather. A litter of 
young hedgehogs 
consists generally of 
about four, ~ when 
first born their 
spines are white and 
soft, but when about 
a fortnight old the 
young ones are 
nearly as spiky as 
their mother. The 
quills are then brown, 
sharp, and closely set. 
Reps 
A SPECIAL interest 
attaches to 
the ques- Lo& 
tion of From a Photograph. 
Foster 
Mother. 
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~- the animal world, from the legend of 
Romulus and Remus downwards. <A 
story, which is perfectly true, is told of 
a sheep dog who when deprived of 
her pups went to the meadow and 
brought to her domicile a lamb, which 
she was found suckling. The owner 
returned the lamb to its mother of 
course. But the dog again fetched 
that particular lamb from the flock. 
Again it was returned. Three times 
this was repeated, when the owner 
resolved not to interfere further, and 
the dog reared the lamb. The picture 
we give in this connection is from a 
photograph taken on a New Zealand 
sheep farm. The heifer has lost her 
calf, and the lambs their mother. Each 
is accommodated by a mutually agree- 
able arrangement as here seen. 
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THE photograph of the Snake Charmers 
has been sent to us by Sir 
Joseph Fayrer, F.R.S. (Vice- 
President of the Zoological 
Society) whose son, Captain I’. D. 8. Fayrer, 
I.M.S., took it at Bangalore. The centre 
From 
India. 
basket contains two cobras, and a rock snake 
is coming out of the basket on the night: 
SNAKE CHARMERS AT BANGALORE. 
foster mothers in 
