S524 The Zoologist — May, 1873. 



manner; one was fastened to the manger, and the other the man was 

 attempting to get into the stable, but the horse would not enter under any 

 persuasion. What could be the cause of such a strange freak the man could 

 not even conjecture, but at last he recollected that a few days previously a 

 menagerie had visited the neighbourhood, and that he had come into pos- 

 session of the refuse straw with which the wild animals were supplied, and 

 that he had just littered his horses with some of it, and the consequence 

 was that one would not enter into the stable at all, and the other became 

 quite unmanageable. There is no doubt it was the straw that had caused 

 this commotion, for when it was removed the horses became quieter, the one 

 outside entering the stable as usual, but each of them showing a great deal 

 of caution, as if they feared something. The straw was then thrown to form 

 a bed for the man's swine, but the pigs would rather sleep in the open air 

 than go into that portion of their domicile occupied by the much-shunned 

 straw. I came to the conclusion that both horses and pigs, by their acute 

 sense of smell, had detected the former presence, near or upon their profifered 

 beds, of creatures which were by nature their enemies, and the all-powerful 

 promptings of instinct had induced them to shun even " the appearance of 

 evil," and to act in a manner strangely contrary to what they usually did. 

 The man to whom the animals belonged, at first almost scorned the idea of 

 my supposing that the cause of the horses' refractory conduct was something 

 in the straw, as he said that he had littered his horses with the like on 

 previous occasions, and they had never acted so before ; he, however, was 

 convinced on removing what I had supposed was the cause. I must own 

 I should have been sceptical had I beard of and not seen the occurrence. — 

 G. B. Corh'in ; liinr/ivood. 



Bats ill Bamboo. — A curious bamboo was found here, each joint having 

 a ring of thorns round it, the joints seldom more than eight inches apart. 

 On cutting some of these to build huts, we found enclosed between the 

 joints of a bamboo four little bats alive. How they came there, how long 

 they had been there, and how, without our assistance, they would ever have 

 got out, I leave to be explained by those who know all about the curious 

 stories of toads found in coal, &c. — Lieut. B. G. Woodthoi'jje's ' Lushai 

 Expedition; 1871—72. ^ 



The Uoolook. — The stillness of the forest was ever and anon broken by 

 the cries of a black monkey known among the natives as the " hoolook." 

 They go about in troops uttering cries resembling the yelping of beaten 

 puppies. One or two commence with a few single cries in one key, when 

 suddenly the whole pack join the chorus in every variety of key. — Id. 



Strange Conduct in a Hare. — On the loth of December I was walking 

 on a foot-path in the Dene, when I saw a hare coming slowly towards me. 

 I placed the butt of my gun on the ground, and stood perfectly still to see 

 how neai" the hare would approach without seeing me. Judge my surprise 



