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Friendly Spiders. — Spiders are unamiable, quarrelsome, spiteful 

 creatures, even to their own kin, — such is the character these Arach- 

 nids bear, though 1 do not believe they always deserve it. Upon the 

 window of an out-house last summer, I noticed there were spread the 

 webs of several spiders, two being in close contiguity. A fly bounced 

 into one of these two webs, and his size gave the occupant trouble. 

 Hearing the buzzing (or feeling the vibrations of the threads, for it 

 has been conjectured by several naturalists that spiders are deaf, ) the 

 spider in the adjacent web entered and gave his aid, and the two spi- 

 ders sucked the juice of the fly very amicably. I have seen, however, 

 as I must confess, under other cirenmstances, when one spider has 

 approached another's prey, that the owner has either fled or " rushed 

 to the charge " and fought, or frightened away the intruder. — J.R.S.C. 



Recent Arrivals at Zoological Garden, Philadelphia. — 1 red 



shouldered hawk, (Buteo lineatus ;) 1 Virginia deer, ( Cervus virgini- 

 anus :) 1 great horned owl, (Bubo virginianus;) 1 red-tailed hawk, 

 (B. borealis ;) 1 Pscudcmys concilia a ; 3 oppossums, ( Didelphys virgin- 

 ianus j) 6 white rats and young, (Mas rattus ;) 1 golden eagle, ( Aquila 

 chrysaetus ;) 4 English rabbits, (Lcpus cuniculus ) 1 king dove, ( Tur- 

 tur risorius ; ) 1 red fox, (Vuipes fitlvus ;) 1 quail, ( Ortyx virginianus ;) 

 1 sparrow hawk, ( Falco sparverius ;) 3 Canadian lynxes, (Lynx Can- 

 adensis j) 3 Menobranches maculus ; and 1 turkey buzzard, ( ' Caihar- 

 tcs aura.) — Arthur E. Brown. 



Trox Scaber. — Mr. Samuel Auxer, of Lancaster City, Pa., a close 

 student and a vigilant collector in entomology, for more than twenty 

 years ; took over fifteen hundred specimens of Trox scaber, Linn, within 

 a space of four feet long and ten inches wide, at one " take," in the 

 month of October last. Although this species is said to occur in 

 every quarter of the globe, and in our own fauna from Canada to 

 Texas, yet, singular to say, Mr. A. with all his observation, had not 

 been fortunate enough to find a single specimen of this species before 

 those alluded to above. These insects had all gathered along the 

 Northern and Eastern margin (inside) of a " cold frame," in his gar- 

 den. Has any other entomologists had a similar experience? We 

 have never taken more than one or two specimens of this species in 

 thirty years. — S. S. R. 



