88 General Notes. (January, i 
pond, and among the weeds; the muslin will allow the water to 
pass through it, whilst any living organisms will be retained by 
the bottle. This can from time to time be examined witha pocket 
lens, and when it is found to contain anything, the lower ring of 
wire can be slipped off and the neck of the bottle pushed up 
through the upper ring, inverting the net. The contents may thet 
be poured off into another bottle, and after rearranging the app | 
ratus, fishing may go on again. The object of the piece of wire 
connecting the two ends of the net is to keep all stiff, so that the 
received two specimens of the Mexican laxolot ( Amblystoma meat : 
canum), which had been bred in France. They were albinos, 7 
as is often the case, and attracted much attention from visitors P 
Fulton Market. Last March the female laid many eggs— peria i 
a hundred and fifty—and a few were hatched. To the surprise t 
all she has just laid another batch, but it is too soon to we : 
these will produce young. Some of the eggs have been sent 0 
Mr. J. A. Ryder, of the U. S. Fish Commission, who e 
study their embryology if they prove to be fertile. We do B 
think it is generally known that this batrachian spawns twice ® 
year.—Forest and Stream. a 
Why SALAMANDERS ARE NOT EATEN By Frocs.—About ae 
ago the writer captured-a leopard frog in a meadow. | It ee 
lost the direction of the water, for, on being pursued, it took | a 
leaps toward the brook, which it could not see. It was P ie 
home and a place prepared for it in a fern case. A vessel of E 
a 
undertake a meal of salamander meat. He tried it severa 
before he learned better. His little victim would almost 
pear from view down the capacious gullet, but the pungen 
thrown out from all parts of the body seemed too muc 
frog’s palate, and it was invariably ejected. After this t 
strength the three prisoners became great friends, and the" 
manders would often crawl over the frog, he winking ae 
familiarity and rarely paying any attention to them.— W. W. i 
burn in Scientific American, as 
Foop oF SNAKES.—When out after prairie chickens in Augt 
last, I crossed a large ditch which was all dried up except $° 
small pools in which were large numbers of the common ©” 
