Notes and Comments 
of the size and shape of large 
hard nuts. It is a comical 
sight, which I have often 
watched, to see an owl dis- 
charge a pellet. Possessing 
a notoriously grave visage, the 
solemnity of aspect on these 
occasions is most ludicrous ; 
standing quite still, the head 
is bent forward, the cruel- 
looking beak opens, the eyes 
are for an instant closed, then 
suddenly the pellet is ejected 
and the bird resumes its 
normal condition.” 
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Ty Antuat Lire for last December the first 
of Mr. Farmborough’s articles 
on “Uncommon Pets” was pub- 
lished. This dealt with jerboas and kangaroo 
rats. The accompanying photograph by Mr. 
Herbert Lazenby, of York, gives an excellent 
idea of the former animals, but it is un- 
necessary to describe them again after what 
has been so recently said about them in the 
article referred to. The little creatures illus- 
trated belong to Mr. H. C. Shann, of York, 
to whom they were sent by Captain Flower, 
of the Zoological Gardens at Ghizeh. 
Jerboas. 
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Tur next photograph represents a half-bred 
Cheviot and 
Leicester Hwe 
that became, on 
April the 3rd of this year, the 
proud mother of six lambs, 
or rather five, for although 
she gave birth to six, one was 
born dead. The other five, 
however, she successfully 
reared, and as the picture 
(which was taken three weeks 
after the event) shows, they 
ave average-sized, healthy 
lambs. It is a very unusual 
occurrence for a ewe to have 
and to rear such a large 
number. Miss Jones, of 
Cramlington, who sends the 
photograph, tells us that the 
A Prolific 
Ewe. 
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EGYPTIAN JERBOAS. 
lambs were born on Lord Ridley’s home 
farm at Blagdon, Northumberland. 
SS 
Miss May Lauvrte sends us a photograph of 
an eccentric cat that spends 
most of its time in a position 
with which one generally asso- 
ciates St. Simon Stilites. The reason of 
this is that his devotion to hunting has 
necessitated life on a chain. He wears an 
ordinary small dog-collar with a long cord 
appended, and to the other end is attached 
a ring which runs along a wire stretched 
between two trees, thus allowing plenty of 
freedom to the animal, while it debars him 
Chained 
Enthusiasm. 
