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present year. The weather immediately preceding this bird's visit to the 

 west coast of Scotland was characterized by severe gales from the south- 

 west, and these may, perhaps, have been instrumental in driving it from 

 its accustomed haunts, the nearest of which are in the vicinity of the 

 Canary Islands ; but it is a wide ranging species in the Southern Seas. 

 The only other visit of this Petrel to Europe was also to the west coast of 

 Britain, a specimen having been washed up dead on the sands of Walney 

 Island, Morecambe Bay, in November, 1890, as recorded by the Rev. H. A. 

 Macpherson. 



We are indebted to Lt.-Gen. Pitt- Rivers for a copy of 'A Short Guide 

 to the Larmer Grounds, Rushmore ; King John's House, aud the Museum 

 at Farnham, Dorset.' The acclimatization of animals iu the park and 

 paddocks at Rushmore is a very pronounced feature. " The Fallow Deer 

 has been crossed with the Mesopotamian Deer, the Japanese Deer with 

 the Red Deer, and these again with the Formosan Deer. The Yak has 

 been crossed with the Pembroke, the Highland cattle, the Kerry, and the 

 Jersey. The Zebu (Indian humped cattle) with the Jersey, producing a 

 very flue animal, and these again with the Jersey. The park and small 

 menagerie contain Llamas, Emus, Rheas, and Kangaroos ; also a small 

 brown breed of Sheep from St. Kilda, which resembles the Roman Sheep 

 found in the Romano-British villages here ; a breed of black four-horned 

 Sheep, piebald Assyrian Sheep, aud Aden Sheep. The Prairie Dogs 

 have bred, but are now dead. Australian Parrots stand the climate fairly 

 well, whilst those from South America are difficult to rear. The White 

 Peacocks do not breed true, but reproduce their like occasionally, The 

 Impeyan Pheasant has been found difficult to rear. Piebald Peacocks and 

 Javanese Peacocks have also been bred here. The Australian Bower-bird 

 has built its bower in the bird-sheds, but it is now dead. The animals in 

 the menagerie vary from time to time. Reindeer have been let loose in the 

 park, but have succumbed to the heat of the summer months." 



In the February number of ' Appleton's Popular Science Monthly,' pub- 

 lished in New York, is an interesting article by W. S. Blatchley, the State 

 Geologist of Indiana, on " How Plants and Animals spend the Winter." 

 Amongst the many forms of animal life to which reference is made are My- 

 riapoda. " Full forty kinds of myriapods occur iu any area comprising 100 

 square miles in the eastern United States. . . . All those found in the 

 Northern States are perfectly harmless, the true Centiped, whose bite is 

 reputed much more venomous than it really is, only being found in the 

 South. ... In winter three or four species can usually be found withiu 



