n Jamaica,' 1851, p. 441, as described by an
excellent observer, Mr. R. Hill. This is the only known case in which
rabbits have become feral in a hot country. They can be kept, however, at
Loanda (_see_ Livingstone's 'Travels,' p. 407). In parts of India, as I am
informed by Mr. Blyth, they breed well.

[268] Darwin's 'Journal of Researches,' p. 193; and 'Zoology of the Voyage
of the Beagle: Mammalia,' p. 92.

[269] Kerr's 'Collection of Voyages,' vol. ii. p. 177; p. 205 for Cada
Mosto. According to a work published in Lisbon in 1717, entitled 'Historia
Insulana,' written by a Jesuit, the rabbits were turned out in 1420. Some
authors believe that the island was discovered in 1413.

[270] Something of the same kind has occurred on the island of Lipari,
where, according to Spallanzani ('Voyage dans les deux Siciles,' quoted by
Godron sur l'Espece, p. 364), a countryman turned out some rabbits which
multiplied prodigiously, but, says Spallanzani, "les lapins de l'ile de
Lipari sont plus petits que ceux qu'on eleve en domesticite."

[271] Waterhouse, 'Nat. Hist. Mammalia,' vol. ii. p. 36.

[272] These rabbits have run wild for a considerable time in Sandon Park,
and in other places in Staffordshire and Shropshire. They originated, as I
have been informed by the gamekeeper, from variously-coloured domestic
rabbits which had been turned out. They vary in colour; but many are
symmetrically coloured, being white with a streak along the spine, and with
the ears and certain marks about the head of a blackish-grey tint. They
have rather longer bodies than common rabbits.

[273] _See_ Prof. Owen's remarks on this subject in his paper on the
'Zoological Significance of the Brain, &c., of Man, &c.,' read before Brit.
Association, 1862; with respect to Birds, _see_ 'Proc. Zoolog. Soc.,' Jan.
11th, 1848, p. 8.

[274] This standard is apparently considerably too low, for Dr. Crisp
('Proc. Zoolog. Soc.,' 1861, p. 80) gives 210 grains as the actual weight
of the brain of a hare which weighed 7lbs., and 125 grains as the weight of
the brain of a rabbit which weighed 3 lbs. 5 oz., that is, the same weight
as the rabbit No. 1 in my list. Now the contents of the skull of rabbit No.
1 in shot is in my table 972 grains; and according to Dr. Crisp's ratio of
125 to 210, the skull of the hare ought to have contained 1632 grains of
shot, instead of only (in the largest hare in my table) 1455 grains.

[275] The Hon. C. Murray has sent me som