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pieces ofonion, and pieces of rabbit until all is used". The seasoning is pepper and salt and dry sage, rubs bed together, and there must be water put into the dish, when it may be put into the oven and slowly baked till done, but not dried up; when removed from . the oven, slightly stir the contents together, before ' serving. \Ve have tried the Island rabbits on this plan, and, although not equal in flavor to the English wild rabbits, are very nice, and it answers well.

To finish our list of native quadrupeds we have to mention the Muskrat, or Musquash, or Mudcat; it is by no means plentiful, but the fur is useful and sale- able, and to those who are fond ofthe smell ofmusk, small pieces ofthis animal’s skin would gratify their taste. The red Squirrel is here, and the ground Squirrel, and the flying Squirrel, whose fur is as soft as a mole’s,its eyes as beautiful as a dormouse’s,and itselfthe most interesting little creature we ever had the pleasure ofsupplying with nuts;

0 CHAPTER XVI. ORNITIl-OLOGYK.

THE Birdsof‘ Prince Edward‘lsland, are now for the first time attempted to be enumerated; the object in view 15 to make a good beginning, and thereby to induce a taste for investigation. There are few, however imperfect their education, however grovel- ling their tendencies, however contracted their viewe, and however slow of apprehension, that have not' looked up with pleasure at the noble eagle, the ospray or the hawk, asthe blue heavens gave width to their soaring instincts. There are few who have not contrasted the sapling and the lofty pine, and higher and higher yet seen the proud defiance ofthe