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NOTES
[1] The Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of the Creation, London, 1691.
[2] Ray gives the case of an elephant "that was observed always when he slept to keep his trunk so close to the ground, that nothing but Air could get in between them," and explains it as an adaptation in habit to prevent the mice from crawling into its lungs—"a strange sagacity and Providence in this Animal, or else an admirable instinct."
[3] Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. 23, 1862.
[4] Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. 25, 1866.
[5] Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. 26, 1870.
[6] In attributing this quality to the butterflies in question I am merely stating what is held by the supporters of the mimicry theory. I know of scarcely any evidence either for or against the supposition.
[7] It is assumed that the intelligence of the birds is such that they can learn a pattern after a single disagreeable experience of it.