[26] Andersson, ‘Travels in South Africa,’ p. 318. For analogous cases in South America see Aug. St.-Hilaire ‘Voyage dans la Province de Goyaz,’ tom. i. p. 71.
[27] Brickell’s ‘Nat. Hist. of North Carolina,’ 1739, p. 53.
[28] Livingstone, quoted by Youatt on Sheep, p. 142. Hodgson in ‘Journal of Asiatic Soc. of Bengal,’ vol. xvi. 1847, p. 1006, etc. etc. On the other hand, Dr. Wilckens argues strongly against the belief that the drooping of the ears is the result of disuse: ‘Jahrbuch der deutschen Viehzucht,’ 1866.
[29] ‘Naturalist’s Library,’ Dogs, vol. ii. 1840, p. 104.
[30] ‘De l’Espèce,’ tom. i. 1859, p. 367.
[31] ‘Ceylon,’ by Sir J. E. Tennent, 1859, vol. ii. p. 531.
[32] For the foregoing statements, see Hunter’s ‘Essays and Observations,’ 1861, vol. ii. p. 329; Dr. Edmondston, as quoted in Macgillivray’s ‘British Birds,’ vol. v. p. 550: Menetries, as quoted in Bronn’s ‘Geschichte der Natur,’ B. ii. s. 110.
[33] These statements on the intestines are taken from Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, ‘Hist. Nat. Gén.,’ tom. iii. pp. 427, 441.
[34] Gilbert White, ‘Nat. Hist. Selborne,’ 1825, vol. ii. p. 121.
[35] Burdach, ‘Traité de Phys.,’ tom. ii. p. 267, as quoted by Dr. P. Lucas, ‘L’Héréd. Nat.,’ tom. i. p. 388.