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surprised than pleased by the sudden approach of a formidable Rooteil galloping 
in upon us, or perhaps over us. One morning I had just dressed myself, and was 
putting on my boots preparatory to riding out, when I became aware of a strange 
scratching within my wide Persian trowsers. I gave a convulsive stamp or two 
with my foot, when down fell a thumping fellow who had unceremoniously 
crawled into that forbidden region. You know my abhorrence to the whole race 
of Spiders, and can conceive the shudder with which I viewed the intruder, whom 
I valiantly severed in two with my sword, the only weapon within reach, as he 
was making off at speed. You shall see his picture, which was taken on the 
spot immediately after his execution. But I had not done with Spiders for that 
day, for while seated at dinner, I felt something like a Crab scrambling up my 
neck; and, on putting up my hand, pulled down another of these amiable reptiles, 
which fell upon the cloth before me :—him I finished with my knife.— Fraser’s 
Winter N Journey. 
Insects of the Gold Coast. —A new species of the Goliathus Beetle is an 
object of commercial as well as entomological value, as much as £50 having been 
given for a specimen. Formerly, £20 to £25 was an ordinary price.— Report of 
the British Association at Newcastle , 1838. 
Ceropales variegatus. — I was present when the Bev. G. T. Budd took a pair 
of these insects on the heath by Parley Copse, Dorsetshire, Aug. 14, 1835, and 
saw another on Catherine Hill, near Christchurch, Hampshire, two days after- 
■wards. There is a single specimen in the British Museum, taken by the late Dr. 
Leach, in Devonshire (?) My net was broken at the time. Mr. Stephens formerly 
named my specimens of C. maculatus as this , which led me into many errors.— 
J. C. Dale, Glanville’s Wootton , Dorsetshire , July 9, 1837- 
Adoption of a Foal by a Cow. — One of the brood blood mares, the property 
of the Marquis of Westminster, at present located at Moor Park, was taken 
very ill after dropping a foal; and, strange to say, the young one has been 
adopted by a milch cow, which renders to it all the offices of a maternal parent. 
—Derby Reporter , May 17, 1838. 
Peregrine Falcon Shot at Norwich. —On Tuesday last, a splendid female 
specimen of that rare bird the Peregrine Falcon was shot by Mr. Walter Boper, 
of this city, whilst in the act of stooping at some Pigeons, and fell on the Duke’s 
Palace bridge. An almost unprecedented occurrence for a bird of retired habits 
like the Peregrine Falcon, and so rare in Norfolk, to have been killed in the centre 
of a large city. It has been stuffed by Mr. Johnson, animal-preserver, and is 
now in his possession.— Norwich Mercury , Sept. 1838. 
Longtailed Tit ( Panes caudatus ) on the Sea-shore. —I have known this 
beautiful little species and ingenious feathered architect, during the severity of 
