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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



MAMMALIA. 



Remarkable Cats' Feet. — For some years past I have known of 

 certain domestic Cats in Yarmouth remarkable for the unusual num- 

 ber of toes upon their fore feet. Prom observations I have made, 

 and the particular neighbourhood in which these felines live, I am 

 strongly inclined to believe that they are all more or less related. To 



someone's great regret, no doubt, an intelligent young man of my 

 acquaintance secured one of tbese (its colour shall be nameless), which 

 he informs me died rather suddenly soon after ; and there is a black 

 specimen, which he believes to be unrelated, which he intended to 

 capture at the same time, but that it gave him the slip, and has never 

 been heard of since. He macerated the fore feet of the Cat that 



