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brought the mother to the spot, with many others. It was plain the child was 
well treated by the Baboon, for he handled it with much kindness. Some 
Plantains being placed under the tree, the Baboon came down and secured the 
fruit, but did not let go his hold on the child, although the people had hidden 
themselves. Soon it grew less sceptical, and, placing the child on terra jirma , ate 
another Plantain. At this moment the people appeared and shouted, thinking 
to terrify the Baboon from his charge ; but the animal was not to be so caught. 
It seized the child again, and leaped from one tree to another, and so on, pursued 
by the people, screaming and shouting, for a quarter of an hour or more. The 
Baboon was then observed to leap over a tree without its victim: this was 
alarming, for none could guess what had become of the child, until they heard its 
cries. It was then found, uninjured, embedded in the rotten trunk of the tree 
on which the Baboon was seen last.— Parburys Oriental Herald. 
Consumptive Animals. —Alluding to the fact mentioned by Mr. Allis in 
The Naturalist , p. 28, a cotemporary observes :—We mentioned this singular 
case to a friend, who has had the best means of acquiring anatomical knowledge, 
and he informs us that he has dissected three Parrots, great favourites, which 
had been sent to the late Mr. John Wilson, curator of the Edinburgh Museum, 
to be stuffed, in which the lungs were reduced to the same state as that described 
by Mr. Allis. He has also dissected two Monkies which, during life, presented 
the usual symptoms of consumption, and whose lungs, on dissection, were thickly 
studded with tubercules, in every different stage. In one case the upper lobe on 
the left side was a mass of matter. Generally speaking, the hard, dry cough to 
which the Monkey tribes are subject in this country, depends on what medical 
men call bronchitis , or inflammation of the lining membrane of the air tubes, and 
which, in its chronic stage, presents many of the symptoms of pulmonary con¬ 
sumption. A return of summer, or removal into a dry, warm place, is in many 
instances sufficient to remove the symptoms.— Sheffield Iris. 
Severity of the Weather, and Abundance of Birds. —Owing to the con¬ 
tinuance of |the frost, there is a great variety of birds in the Liverpool markets, 
and ornithologists are reaping a rich harvest in making great additions to their 
collections, or, as a friend of mine observes, “ making hay while the sun shines." 
The dealers of objects in Natural History have been on the alert in picking up 
the rarer species of Ducks, &c., but I am informed that the market people always 
make a point of asking them twice their usual price for a bird, well knowing 
that unless it was a rare bird, they would not care about purchasing it. The 
following list has been furnished me through the kindness of Mr. Henry 
Johnson, curator of the Royal Institution, who has added a few rare birds to 
their collection. Of the following species he has not noticed in the market more 
than a solitary specimen or two :—■ 
