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NATURE NOTES 
Saturday, April 27. — Ramble in Epping Forest. Meet at Theydon Boi.s 
Station at 3.25 p.m. Train leaves Liverpool Street (G.E.R.) at 2.41 p.ni. 
Cheap return tickets, is. 4d. Tea 96. each. Guide, Mr. A. B. Hornblower. 
Saturday, May 4. — Oakland.', Symonds Hyde and Brocket Hall Park. 
Train leaves King’s Cross (G.N.R.) at 2.30 p.m., Finsbury Park 2.36. 
Take cheap half-day excursion tickets to St. Alban’s, 2S., but detrain at Hill End 
■Station at 3.24 p.m. Change at Hatfield. Walking distance about 7 miles. 
Tea at “ The Chequers,” Cromer Hyde. The return train reaches King’s Cross 
at 9.15 p.m. Guide, Mr. W. Percival Westell, F.R.H.S., M.B.O.U. 
N.B. -The time.sof all these trains should bechecked in the April time-table.s. 
Ail communications -vilh regard to Excursions should be addressed to Mr. H. 
11 . Poole, Honorary Secretaiy of the Excursions Committee, at 16, Heathcotc 
Street, W.C. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
E. C. R. — This winter our tortoise showed no signs of wishing to bury himself, 
he was therefore brought into the house and although he did not properly go to 
sleep, he ate little or nothing. 
G. W. — If you intend to convey the suggestion that hybrids might have arisen 
from the polecats and rabbits, which were described in the note entitled “ .\ 
Happy Family,” it may be said in answer that hybrids only occur between nearly 
allied species of animals and that there is no evidence to show that such a cross as 
that indicated could take place. Hybrids between the stoat and ferret are known, 
and what is more are fertile. 
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