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brought the mother to the spot, with many others. It was plain the child was 

 well treated by the Baboon, for he handled it with much kindness. Some 

 Plantains being placed under the tree, the Baboon came down and secured the 

 fruit, but did not let go his hold on the child, although the people had hidden 

 themselves. Soon it grew less sceptical, and, placing the child on terra firma, ate 

 another Plantain. At this moment the people appeared and shouted, thinking 

 to terrify the Baboon from his charge ; but the animal was not to be so caught. 

 It seized the child again, and leaped from one tree to another, and so on, pursued 

 by the people, screaming and shouting, for a quarter of an hour or more. The 

 Baboon was then observed to leap over a tree without its victim : this was 

 alarming, for none could guess what had become of the child, until they heard its 

 cries. It was then found, uninjured, embedded in the rotten trunk of the tree 

 on which the Baboon was seen last. — Parbury's Oriental Herald. 



Consumptive Animals. — Alluding to the fact mentioned by Mr. Allis in 

 The Naturalist, p. 28, a cotemporary observes : — We mentioned this singular 

 case to a friend, who has had the best means of acquiring anatomical knowledge, 

 and he informs us that he has dissected three Parrots, great favourites, which 

 had been sent to the late Mr. John Wilson, curator of the Edinburgh Museum, 

 to be stuffed, in which the lungs were reduced to the same state as that described 

 by Mr. Allis. He has also dissected two Monkies which, during life, presented 

 the usual symptoms of consumption, and whose lungs, on dissection, were thickly 

 studded with tubercules, in every different stage. In one case the upper lobe on 

 the left side was a mass of matter. Generally speaking, the hard, dry cough to 

 which the Monkey tribes are subject in this country, depends on what medical 

 men call bronchitis, or inflammation of the lining membrane of the air tubes, and 

 which, in its chronic stage, presents many of the symptoms of pulmonary con- 

 sumption. A return of summer, or removal into a dry, warm place, is in many 

 instances sufficient to remove the symptoms. — Sheffield Iris. 



Severity of the Weather, and Abundance of Birds. — Owing to the con- 

 tinuance of "the frost, there is a great variety of birds in the Liverpool markets, 

 and ornithologists are reaping a rich harvest in making great additions to their 

 collections, or, as a friend of mine observes, " making hay while the sun shines." 

 The dealers of objects in Natural History have been on the alert in picking up 

 the rarer species of Ducks, &c, but I am informed that the market people always 

 make a point of asking them twice their usual price for a bird, well knowing 

 that unless it was a rare bird, they would not care about purchasing it. The 

 following list has been furnished me through the kindness of Mr. Henry 

 Johnson, curator of the Royal Institution, who has added a few rare birds to 

 their collection. Of the following species he has not noticed in the market more 

 than a solitary specimen or two : — 



