146 CAT SUCKLING YOUNG FERRETS. 



a course of treatment necessarily causes a natural 

 craving for liquid, for though wild rabbits seldom 

 drink, they generally feed at morning and evening 

 when the dew is on the herbage. However, when 

 tame rabbits are kept entirely on green food they 

 are liable to disease, but this can be easily pre- 

 vented by giving them corn or other dry nutriment, 

 and taking care that a pan of water is kept con- 

 stantly in the hutch or inclosure. Any one who 

 reflects will adopt this course, by simply trying 

 to imagine how the fluids of the body can be 

 supported without the absorption of moisture. 

 Even the leucoryx (Oryx leucoryx) and the Ariel 

 gazelle, which inhabit vast barren plains where 

 water is scarce, find a substitute in bulbs contain- 

 ing a considerable quantity of water, which grow 

 under the surface of the ground. 



