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creatures to be terrified thereby must be assumed to be capable, not 

 only of remembering, but of communicating to others, their experi- 

 ences in regard to cobras, and these others of understanding and 

 remembering such communications. 



If the latter is the true answer, we avoid this difficulty, but are 

 met with another, viz., that the conduct of the caterpillar secondly 

 described, in actually striking like a snake at its assailant, though 

 powerless thereby to injure him, is more consistent with the theory 

 involved in the first question than the second. 



EEVIEW.* 



Mr. W. T. Blanford and the Secretary of State (I'et the former 

 have precedence on his own ^'midden'') have sent the Indian 

 Empire a New Year's gift of the present volume — for a consideration. 

 They call it a " part,'' but we pi'efer when a book is published in 

 two volumes at an interval of 3J years, to call them volumes. Be 

 that as it may, Mr. Blanford's "Mammalia of India" is now a 

 complete work ; and is, and must be for many a year to come, the 

 standard work upon the subject. 



In a preface, hiberuieally placed at the caudal extremity of the 

 volume, Mr. Blanford points out that six of seven "volumes in which 

 it was originally proposed to describe the Vertebrata of British India 

 have been completed," He adds that three volumes on Moths, by 

 Mr. G. F, Hampson, are to be added to these on Vertebrata ; which is 

 very good news, and recommends Mr. P. L. Sclater to the public 

 for having recommended him (Mr. Blanford) to the Secretary of 

 State, which was, perhaps, superfluous in both cases. Both gentlemen 

 have reputations which are, or might be thought be, to above the 

 need of " mutual admiration." 



The volume now under Review begins with the Bats, and at their 

 head is our eminent friend the Flying-Fox, who is favoured with 

 several vernacular names that would make a Brahman Quintilian 



* Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. [Why not Afghanistan 

 and Beluchistan?] Published under the authority of the Secretary of State for 

 India in Council. Edited by W. T. Blanford, F.B.S. Mammalia; by W. T. Blanford, 

 FES. Pare II., Price 10s. 



London : —Taylor and Francisi. Calcutta-.— Thacker, Spink & Co. Bombat:—* 

 Thasker & Co. 



