In birds and reptiles the sense of taste does not appear to be highly developed. Parrots are, perhaps, better off in this respect than the majority of their class; and the ducks have special organs on the edges of the beak, which seem to minister to this sense. A python at the Zoological Gardens, partially blind owing to a change of skin, is said to have struck at an animal, but to have only succeeded in capturing its blanket. This, however, it constricted, and proceeded to swallow with abundant satisfaction. It may here be mentioned that the scales and skin of many fishes are provided with sense-organs which very closely resemble the taste-buds of higher animals. They occur in the head and along the "lateral line" which runs down the side of the fish, and may be readily seen, for example, in the cod. Mr. Bateson's[EQ] careful observations at Plymouth gave, however, no indication of the possession of an olfactory or gustatory function, and their place in the sensory economy of the fish remains problematical. In or near the mouth similar end-organs are found to be somewhat variously developed in different fishes--on the palate and lips, on the gill-bars, more rarely on the tongue, and on the barbels of the rockling and the pout. How far any or all of these have a gustatory function remains to be proved. Anglers and fishermen, however, from their everyday experience, and naturalists from special observations, do not doubt that fishes have a sense of taste. Professor Herdman's recent experiments on feeding fishes with nudibranchs[ER] (naked molluscs) seem to show, for example, that the fishes concerned, including shannies, flat-fish, cod, rockling, and others, have a sense of taste leading them to reject these molluscs as nasty. They show, too, that some of the nudibranchs (_Doris_, _Ancula_, _Eolis_) are protected by warning coloration.