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will thread any needle ; she cannot he taken in hy the same thing twice, and will imi- 

 tate almost anything that is done before her. She is considered hy Professor Owen, 

 to be about nine years old, which well agrees with all accounts of her previous life. 

 She weighs 52 lbs. ; measures 2 feet 2 inches round the chest, and is 3 feet 2 inches 

 high; or, as she will not stand upright to be measured, probably her height is nearly 

 3 feet 6 inches." On making a more careful examination of this animal in her pre- 

 sent abode, I was particularly struck by her want of teeth. Only one incisor and a 

 few imperfect molars appear to remain. I observed her total inability to crack a nut, 

 a feat performed by almost every other monkey with great adroitness. Her manners 

 now are perfectly quiet, and there is no appearance of the ferocity implied in the pre- 

 ceding quotation ; she was gentle in the extreme, shaking hands in a very cordial 

 manner with some children who were present, and perfectly on the alert at the sound 

 of her name — " Susan " — whenever it was uttered. I presume the keeper imagined 

 that details of her ferocity would give her an interest in the eyes of the public. I have 

 observed that the captains ot Margate steamers always tell their passengers that the 

 present is the roughest passage they ever encountered ; so the visitors of this gentle 

 being are assured it is the most savage chimpanzee. The captain, to whose care 

 " Susan " was entrusted, told me that in taking her meals on the passage home, she 

 used knife, fork, spoon and drinking-cup, with the same ease as a human being ; and 

 with whatever food she was supplied, she preferred using a fork or a spoon to convey 

 it to her mouth, to holding it in her hands. For more than three years she had been 

 in the possession of a Mr. Campbell, who left her at perfect liberty, never subjecting 

 her to the slightest confinement. When he received her she was quite young — a mere 

 baby, so that her present age may be supposed four or five years, rather than eight or 

 nine. When on board ship, she entertained a great dislike to black men, who used to 

 tease and otherwise misuse her; but with the crew generally she appeared on excellent 

 terms, and exhibited many traits of extreme docility. — Edward Newman. 



Echidna Hystrix. A living specimen of this extraordinary animal was lately pur- 

 chased by the Zoological Society, and conveyed to their gardens in Regent's Park; it 

 however lived but a few days. I am not aware of any other instance of the Echidna 

 having survived the passage from Australia ; and the fact is highly important, as 

 showing what may be accomplished by care and attention. We may yet succeed in 

 domesticating, sufficiently at least for purposes of science, both this animal and Orni- 

 thorhynchus paradoxus : the more important features in the history of both are still 

 unknown. — Id. 



Marten killed in Wales. Some years ago a specimen of the marten-cat {Martes 

 Foina) was taken in a trap in the middle of a large wood, near this place. It is the 

 only one I ever heard of as occurring anywhere near here. When in Wales, at Llan- 

 beiis, near Snowdon, in the summer of last year I saw an auimal of this species caught 

 by a pack of hounds, kept for the purpose of killing the foxes, wild cats, and other 

 vermin. The Welch huntsmen, who followed their pack on foot, with iron-spiked 

 poles, assured me that this animal was common, and lived in the rocks, preferring 

 Welch mutton, or rather lamb, to any other food. — P. S. Sclater ; Odiham. 



Brown Rats in the Scilly Islands. In my additions to the Scillonian Fauna, I for- 

 got to notice that on the formerly inhabited island of St. Helen's, rats {Hanover rats, 

 as Mr. Wuteiton calls them), were living au naturel in burrows of their own construc- 

 tion, in which I observed that they availed themselves with great engineering skill of 

 the protection afforded to their galleries by the boulders of granite with which the 

 soil was strewn. — F. Holme. 



