Edinburgh journal of natural history Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences edinburghjournal01macg Year: 1835 78 THE EDINBURGH JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY, domestic animals. The first brood should be carefully preserved ; for if thay can be induced to reproduce, their progeny will in all probabihty succeed, and be rendered completely domesticated, thus provinsf a valuable accession to the luxuries of the table. During our residence at Prinlaws House, near Leslie, in Fife, a pair of Ringdoves built and incubated on a spruce fir-tre?, m a plantation which bounded oar g
Edinburgh journal of natural history Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences edinburghjournal01macg Year: 1835 78 THE EDINBURGH JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY, domestic animals. The first brood should be carefully preserved ; for if thay can be induced to reproduce, their progeny will in all probabihty succeed, and be rendered completely domesticated, thus provinsf a valuable accession to the luxuries of the table. During our residence at Prinlaws House, near Leslie, in Fife, a pair of Ringdoves built and incubated on a spruce fir-tre?, m a plantation which bounded oar garden, and not more than fifteen yards from the house. Th^ir nest was not more than twenty-five feet from the ground, and close to a {^^arden walk through which the fa- mily were constantly passing. Yet this seemed to give the connubial pair no uneasi- ness, as the female would sit on her nest, with her mate by her side, without at- tempting to quit the spot on the approach even of several individuals. The first young, which they brought up in the fuUowing spring, built a nest in a spruce fir within the garden, and reared their young. Both these nests were occupied evi-ry season afterwards during the four years which we remained there. These Birds very fri*quently alighted and fed in the garden, and even ate occasionally along with the domestic poultry ; from which we are of opinion thaf, if unmolested, the Cushat is not so shy a Bird as is generally imagined, and that it is only from perse- cution that it retires to the deep recesses of woods for shelter from its numerous enemies. Singular Tenacity of Life in an Aquatic Molluscous Animal.—M. Rang, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Paris, received four young speci- mens of Anodonta rubens, of Lamarck, from Senegal, and although they had been enveloped in cotton for two months, they were still alive; he had learnt that these animals live eight months of the year out of water, upon the ground being suddenly abandoned by
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