THE HEDGEHOG.
[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—I have read the letters as to above in the last two issues of your paper. I have asked my keeper if he has heard hedge- hogs making a noise like snoring. He informed me that some years age; when employed on an estate near Wimborne, he killed a great many as they destroyed pheasants' eggs; that in the spring he has heard them make a noise more like a haity crying than anything else. I asked him if the animals would be mating then, and he said he thought eo. I have referred to Wood's Natural History, and at p. 452 it is written: " It is a curious fact that whenever the hibernating hedgehog is roused it utters a deep sonorous respiration which is a test of its being truly hibernating." The above may be of use to your correspondents and to explain the different
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