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injured by the removal. Round and round she went, 

 standing on the tips of her hind-feet, while her fore- 

 feet stretched up fully four inches against the glass, 

 making her look quite formidable ; but she is perfectly 

 harmless, never attempting to bite in the handling. 



Despairing of her ever becoming contented in the 

 jar, I put her in the menagerie with the rest. I first 

 made a hole two or three inches deep, and set the top 

 of her New Hampshire house over it. This was better. 

 She took to it at once, and commenced to' fix up. She 

 soon welded New Hampshire — soil and grass — fast to 

 New Jersey, and was now satisfied and happy, and did 

 not shut herself in for the winter until late in Novem- 

 ber. Her burrow is only about eight inches deep, and 

 yet there is a marked increase of temperature in it. This 

 was observed by several persons on placing the hand 

 at the mouth of the tube. One cold morning — only 

 twenty degrees above zero — I introduced a thermome- 

 ter into the burrow. It ran up to forty, making a dif- 

 ference of twenty degrees. Soon after this she closed 

 her domicile with a canopy of thick close web; she 

 also drew in a few sticks and straws. 



There is a great difference in the size of mature in- 

 dividuals of this species. I have never found any spec- 

 imens in New Jersey that would at all compare in size 

 with four that were sent me from New Hampshire. 

 The male, like others of its class, has very long legs, as 

 may be seen from the engraving, and, poor fellow, he 

 may often need them in making long strides to get out 



