356 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



The last male specimen of the half-wild Apes which once were 

 fairly plentiful on the Eock of Gibraltar has died. As"Fergy" he 

 was known throughout Europe. He was buried, writes a ' Daily 

 Graphic ' correspondent, with the utmost decorum, his family witness- 

 ing the sad ceremony from some little distance above. Throughout 

 the following night their lamentations could be heard. 



We read the following paragraph in our interesting contemporary 

 the 'Shooting Times' for Sept. 2nd: — "If the present conjecture 

 prove correct, many Grouse will next year succumb to the ravages of 

 disease. It is said that the deadly and dreaded complaint generally 

 breaks out after a very good season ; but, as nothing but the disease has 

 much influence in reducing the stock of Grouse, and as disease comes 

 periodically, it is natural that, when it comes, it should find a large 

 stock, for the birds increase and multiply amazingly in its absence. 

 It is curious that the disease always takes its course through the 

 country in belts, often well defined on either side — so much so that 

 one side of a burn has often been swept of the Grouse stock and the 

 other has not been touched by the complaint. This afflicted belt has 

 often extended for forty, fifty, and even one hundred miles, and the 

 strange thing is that it has often jumped a valley of low ground, with 

 no Grouse upon it for some miles, and extended its ravages to the hills 

 upon the other side, still following the direction indicated by the first 

 afflicted belt upon the other side of the valley. This, naturally, gave 

 rise to the idea that the disease was carried in the air and breathed 

 into the systems of the birds. But Dr. Klein, during his experiments 

 in 1887, found the utmost difficulty in imparting the disease through 

 the breath of sick birds, and could not effect it without enclosing the 

 diseased and the healthy birds under a cloth together, and so leaving 

 them for a night. It seems impossible to believe that contagion can 

 be carried miles in the air that could not be carried from one bird to 

 another in the free air of a room." 



An interesting tabulated statement has been issued by the Henley 

 Fisheries Preservation Association showing the number of fish and ova 

 it has placed in the Thames between December, 1882, and June, 1905. 

 These amount respectively to 36,080 fish and 177,000 ova. Particulars 

 are appended : — 



