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MR. R. I. POCOCK'S interesting paper in your issue of November 16, leads me to place on record an observation I made last summer in the island of Arran. Sitting by a little clear pool in the granite of Glen Sannox, I noticed a spider whose web was spun in the heather which partly overhung the stream. On disturbing her, she dropped on to the granite a few inches above the water, and running rapidly down, entered the pool and hid under a tuft of weed. After remaining thus hidden for 2½ minutes, she returned to the surface and, reeling herself up by her thread, regained the web. Disturbed again, she repeated the action, remaining under water 1¾ minutes. A puff of tobacco smoke sent her down a third time, when she remained hidden for 2¼ minutes. In each case she hid in the same place, and in each case regained the nest by her thread.
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MORGAN, C. Protective Habit in a Spider. Nature 49, 102 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/049102a0
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