present year. The weather immediately preceding this bird's visit to the west coast of Scotland was characterized by severe gales from the southwest, and these may, perhaps, have been instrumental in driving it from its accustomed haunts, the nearest of which are in the vicinity of the Canary Islands; but it is a wide ranging species in the Southern Seas. The only other visit of this Petrel to Europe was also to the west coast of Britain, a specimen having been washed up dead on the sands of Walney Island, Morecambe Bay, in November, 1890, as recorded by the Rev. [[Author:Hugh Alexander Macpherson |H.A. Macpherson]].
We are indebted to Lt.-Gen. Pitt-Rivers for a copy of 'A Short Guide to the Larmer Grounds, Rushmore; King John's House, and the Museum at Farnham, Dorset.' The acclimatization of animals in the park and paddocks at Rushmore is a very pronounced feature. "The Fallow Deer has been crossed with the Mesopotamian Deer, the Japanese Deer with the Red Deer, and these again with the Formosan Deer. The Yak has been crossed with the Pembroke, the Highland cattle, the Kerry, and the Jersey. The Zebu (Indian humped cattle) with the Jersey, producing a very fine animal, and these again with the Jersey. The park and small menagerie contain Llamas, Emus, Rheas, and Kangaroos; also a small brown breed of Sheep from St. Kilda, which resembles the Roman Sheep found in the Romano-British villages here; a breed of black four-horned Sheep, piebald Assyrian Sheep, and Aden Sheep. The Prairie Dogs have bred, but are now dead. Australian Parrots stand the climate fairly well, whilst those from South America are difficult to rear. The White Peacocks do not breed true, but reproduce their like occasionally. The Impeyan Pheasant has been found difficult to rear. Piebald Peacocks and Javanese Peacocks have also been bred here. The Australian Bower-bird has built its bower in the bird-sheds, but it is now dead. The animals in the menagerie vary from time to time. Reindeer have been let loose in the park, but have succumbed to the heat of the summer months."
In the February number of 'Appleton's Popular Science Monthly,' published in New York, is an interesting article by W.S. Blatchley, the State Geologist of Indiana, on "How Plants and Animals spend the Winter." Amongst the many forms of animal life to which reference is made are Myriapoda. "Full forty kinds of myriapods occur in any area comprising 100 square miles in the eastern United States.... All those found in the Northern States are perfectly harmless, the true Centiped, whose bite is reputed much more venomous than it really is, only being found in the South.... In winter three or four species can usually be found within
