[245] Desmarest, 'Encyclop. Méthod. Mammalogie,' p. 480.
[246] 'Journal of Asiatic Soc. of Bengal,' vol. xvi., 1847, pp. 1020, 1025.
[247] M. P. Gervais, 'Hist. Nat. des Mammifères, tom. i., 1854, p. 288.
[248] U. Aldrovandi, 'De Quadrupedibus digitatis,' 1637, p. 383. For Confucius and G. Markham, see a writer who has studied the subject, in 'Cottage Gardener,' Jan. 22nd, 1861, p. 250.
[249] Owen, 'British Fossil Mammals,' p. 212.
[250] Bechstein, 'Naturgesch. Deutschlands,' 1801, b. i. p. 1133. I have received similar accounts with respect to England and Scotland.
[251] 'Pigeons and Rabbits,' by E. S. Delamer, 1854, p. 133. Sir J. Sebright ('Observations on Instinct,' 1836, p. 10) speaks most strongly on the difficulty. But this difficulty is not invariable, as I have received two accounts of perfect success in taming and breeding from the wild rabbit. See also Dr. P. Broca, in 'Journal de la Physiologie' tom. ii. p. 368.
Transcriber's Note: this note and the previous one were interchanged; corrected by Errata page.
[252] Gervais, 'Hist. Nat. des Mammifères,' tom. i. p. 292.
[253] See Dr. P. Broca's interesting memoir on this subject in Brown-Sequard's 'Journ. de Phys.' vol. ii. p. 367.