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but sharp eyes occasionally see them, hiding in the brown Lae 
under the low-growing species of pines in the “‘pinetu d 
and also near the tangle of herbs i int sh 
they are still a with us, and we hope that no passion pes neat- 
and r will entirely abolish the jungles of cat-brier and 
Scene ee that give them shelter he children love 
em al x’ Rabbit and Peter Rabbit stories help us to 
protect them. In springtime, when the garden is fu bloom 
hey are bol 
and devour the blossoms. They hide ther nests so successfully 
i ing the grass 
in such unexpected places, that it is o i ras 
n top of the terraces of the museum, that they are occasionally 
discovered. 
The moles like “January thaws” and were busy on the 11th, 
a fine warm day, tunnelling the lawns, searching for eres 
and tha t, the white grub of the e n those tv 
days of record-breaking temperatures, the 27th and 28th of Janu- 
ary, the frogs were reported to aking, the ducks migrating 
northward, or flying about in pairs, a bat and numbers of bees 
a 
and flies were seen in the Garden and snow-drops, willows and 
alders came into bloom in a few warm days. 
Last winter and also this winter, on the shore of the large lake, 
ti 
damage and fill up drains and pipes with their rubbish, besides 
eating rootstocks of the water-lilies. 
‘wo years ago, a family of raccoons discovered Dr. Harper's 
ae of pedierd corn and visite ae ee at meee 
t They w rapped 
and ener into furs, so they presuiaably are a oe 
around, perhaps in an automobile? , 
