AMONG the notes published in NATURE for December 27, 1888, is an account of a hare swimming across a river; perhaps the following account of a hare taking to the sea may be of interest. In October 1887, I was a member of a shooting party staying near Auchencairn on the Kirkcudbrightshire coast, where for miles the waves of the Solway beat on red sandstone cliffs, broken here and there by small bays, where the burns run down to the sea through little glens. One clay I had left the others and was standing among the seaweed-covered boulders of such a bay, when the sounds of a course reached me from a hillside a quarter of a mile or more away, and presently I saw hare and greyhounds coming down to the shore; they ran close past where I was standing, and then to my astonishment the hare deliberately entered the water and swam out to sea.