VERTEBRATA. MAMMALIA. 



himself that the snake was gone ; advanced to the 

 chair more boldly; looked under it, and took the 

 apple, and ate it with great appetite, dancing about, 

 and resuming all his former gaiety. 



" We know that there are large constricting ser- 

 pents in Africa ; and, as the animal must have been 

 very young when separated from its parents, I made 

 this experiment in particular to try his instinct : it 

 succeeded, to the entire satisfaction of the witnesses 

 who were present. 



" He manifested aversion to a small living Tortoise, 

 but nothing like the horror which he betrayed at 

 sight of the snake. I was induced to show him the 

 former by the account of the effect produced by Tes- 

 tudinata on the Asiatic Orang, whose habits are so 

 admirably described by Dr. Abel and Captain Me- 

 thuen, who brought the animal to England. 



" Tommy, among other exercises, is very fond of 

 swinging. He places himself on the swing, generally 

 in a sitting posture, holding on each side with his 

 hands. He not unfrequently puts up his feet, and 

 grasps the cord on either side with them too, ap- 

 pearing more at home on his slack rope than II Dia- 

 volo Antonio himself. 



" James Hunt, one of the keepers, has observed 

 him frequently sitting and leaning his head on his 

 hand, attentively looking at the keepers when at 

 their supper, and watching, to use Hunt's expres- 

 sion, * every bit they put into their mouths.' Fuller, 

 the head-keeper, informs me that our Chimpanzee 



