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follows the valleys occupied by the railway from Whitby to Pickering. 
Thence, in the absence of a natural boundary to the south of this point, an 
arbitrary straight line has been drawn to Weaverthorpe village, and thence 
to Flamborough Head.” 
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Ay excellent example of comparing the faunistic records of old authors 
with the existing fauna of the present day has been set by Mr. J. W. Carr 
in ‘ The Naturalist.’ He has written an article on ‘“ Fishes of the Notting- 
hamshire Trent in 1622, recorded by Michael Drayton in the ‘ Poly-Olbion’; 
with notes on their present occurrence.” ‘In spite of the enormous 
growth of the city since Drayton wrote, and the pouring into the river of 
great volumes of foul water from the numerous dyeing, bleaching, tanning, 
and other works, as well as the effluent from the sewage farm, the fish-fauna 
seems to have undergone comparatively little change during the interval of 
275 years since the publication of the ‘ Poly-Olbion.’” 
In this month’s ‘ Windsor Magazine,’ Mr. C. J. Cornish gives some 
interesting particulars as to ‘“‘ How Animals come to the Zoo.” We can 
only give the following extract :—‘‘ The readiest source from which to fill 
up lacune in the ‘ Zoo’ is the stock-in-hand of the wild beast dealers, such 
as the Jamrachs, Cross of Liverpool, or the surplus stock of foreign 
menageries, or of men like Mr. Hagenbeck, of Hamburg, who both own 
menageries and import wild animals obtained by their collectors abroad. 
The animals at the English dealers, are recorded weekly in the ‘ Field’; 
but the prices paid for really rare animals do not as a rule transpire. The 
first expensive purchase made for the ‘Zoo’ was an Indian Rhinoceros, 
bought in 1834. ‘The price was merely alluded to as ‘ heavy’; but, as for 
that year the cost of purchasing animals was £1200, while in the previous 
year only £160 was spent, the animal probably cost not much less than 
£1000. The Society had extraordinary luck in their Rhinoceros collecting, 
whether by purchase or otherwise, though the animals cost a small fortune. 
In 1875 they bought of Mr. Jamrach a Rhinoceros, never before seen in 
Europe, for the great price of £1250. This was believed to be a Sumatran 
Rhinoceros, though it came from Chittagong. A few months later some 
undoubted Sumatran Rhinoceroses were shipped to England, and one was 
purchased, also of Mr. Jamrach, for £600. This was found to differ from 
the first, which was not only a new species, but at that time the only speci- 
men known to exist! It was named the ‘ Hairy-eared Rhinoceros,’ and 
several have since been obtained. Another Rhinoceros, from the Straits 
of Sunda, was then bought for £800, so that at a cost of £3850 the Zoolo- 
gical Gardens were able to exhibit all the species of Rhinoceros found in 
