ON THE CAT OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS. 517 



But I am inclined, as I think Bochart was also, to consider 

 these lines to be so worthy of their author as to be unworthy of 

 any attention from us. And it is interesting to note that, in a 

 Basle edition, of the year 1546, of Tzetzes' works, the first, and to 

 the credit of human nature it should be added, also, up to 1826, 

 the last independent edition of this portion of his works, some 

 of which happily still remain unprinted, there stands opposite 

 these lines the following Latin note : ^Alii mustelam rusticam seu 

 viverram.' ■ 



3. If I understated my case in this instance, I overstated it in 

 another, when I said (p. 513) that the cat will never take to burrows 

 in the way of refuge. I have already said, in this paper, that in 

 drawing up catalogues and making faunae, it is wise and well to 

 avoid universal negatives. It would have been well if I had had this 

 precept before my eyes in a more generalised form when I wrote 

 my last paper ; for I have since been informed by two good ob- 

 servers that they have each of them known a cat take to trog- 

 lodytism. In neither of these cases, however, did the animal profit 

 much by doing what it could not have been expected to do. 



