[7] _See_ Dr. P. Broca’s interesting memoir on this subject in Brown-Séquard’s ‘Journ. de. Phys.,’ vol. ii. p. 367. [8] The skulls of these breeds are briefly described in the ‘Journal of Horticulture,’ May 7, 1861, p. 108. [9] ‘Journal of Horticulture,’ 1861, p. 380. [10] ‘Journal of Horticulture,’ May 28, 1861, p. 169. [11] ‘Journal of Horticulture,’ 1861, p. 327. With respect to the ears _see_ Delamer on ‘Pigeons and Rabbits,’ 1854, p. 141; also ‘Poultry Chronicle,’ vol. ii. p. 499, and ditto for 1854, p. 586. [12] Delamer, ‘Pigeons and Rabbits,’ p. 136. _See also_ ‘Journal of Horticulture,’ 1861, p. 375. [13] ‘An Account of the different Kinds of Sheep in the Russian Dominions,’ 1794, p. 39. [14] ‘Proc. Zoolog. Soc.,’ June 23, 1857, p. 159. [15] ‘Journal of Horticulture,’ April 9, 1861, p. 35. [16] ‘Cottage Gardener,’ 1857, p. 141. [17] Mr. Bartlett, in ‘Proc. Zoolog Soc.,’ 1861, p. 40. [18] ‘Phenomenon in Himalayan Rabbits,’ in ‘Journal of Horticulture,’ Jan. 27, 1865, p. 102. [19] G. R. Waterhouse, ‘Natural History of Mammalia: Rodents,’ 1846, pp. 52, 60, 105. [20] Delamer on ‘Pigeons and Rabbits,’ p. 114. [21] Gosse’s ‘Sojourn in 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. [22] Darwin’s ‘Journal of Researches,’ p. 193; and ‘Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle: Mammalia,’ p. 92. [23] 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. [24] Something of the same kind has occurred on the island of Lipari, where, according to Spallanzani (‘Voyage dans les deux Siciles,’ quoted by Godron, ‘De l’Espèce,’ 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 élève en domesticité.” [25] Waterhouse, ‘Nat. Hist. Mammalia,’ vol. ii. p. 36. [26] 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.