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Note on the Habits of the Yipee. 



In reference to the " Note" on this subject in our last number 

 (p. 118) we have received several interesting communications from 

 Dr. J. Davy, to whom specimens of the young vipers reported to 

 have taken refuge in the maternal mouth, were forwarded for 

 examination. 



Dr. Davy remarks that, if, as Mr. Norman appears to be sure, 

 the eleven young Yij^ers were all found in the same situation (in 

 the interior of the mother) he has little doubt that that place was 

 the uterus and not the stomach. His reasons for coming to this 

 conclusion will be found in the following observations, consisting for 

 the most part of extracts from his letters. 



" Neither of the three sj)ecimens," he says, " examined by me 

 bore any marks of having breathed, or of being in a state sufiiciently 

 advanced, as I imagine, for independent existence. The poison fangs 

 were not fully developed, though whether at the time of birth 

 these organs are fully formed or not, I do not know. Probably, 

 considering how small and feeble the young snakes would then be, 

 those organs would then be little more than rudimentary, and if so 

 that may accoimt for Vipers, which are so prolific, not being more 

 common, defenceless as they would thus be, and exposed to the 

 attacks of so many enemies." 



" The lungs again were perfectly collapsed. If respiration had 

 taken place, I should not have expected this ; and I do not think that 

 there would be a complete absorption of the air by the spirit. The 



