1 The late F. W. H. Myers explains music in his own way—in forced accordance, that is to say, with his subliminal self hypothesis—without even a reference to Darwin! Did he not know Darwin’s views, or did he think himself justified in ignoring them?

2 As reported in “Proceedings,” March 1902. Part xliii.

3 Or in The Tempest as produced and acted at Stratford-on-Avon during the last anniversary.

4 The accuracy of Jenner’s observations on this point, was questioned, not long since, by his enemies: but most triumphantly was it vindicated.

5 Or some days later.

6 The pursuit, namely, just alluded to; but the birds were soon lost amongst the nettles.

7 I can see no reason why those who think the leopard’s spots and the tiger’s stripes protective, should hold the same theory in regard to the quiet and uniform colouring of the lion. To others, however, this and the obscure markings on the young animal certainly suggest that, here, sexual adornment has given place to harmony with the surrounding landscape. The male lion, however, has developed a mane, and this, by becoming fashionable at the expense of colour and pattern, may have led to the deterioration of the latter. The aboriginal colouring of all these creatures was, probably, dull, and to this the lion may have reverted. But if he is protected by his colouring, how can the leopard—in the same country and with similar habits—also be? The same question may be asked in regard to the puma and jaguar, who roam together, seeking the same prey, over a vast expanse of territory. Again, if the lion was once spotted, and if his spots, like the leopard’s, were a protection, why has he lost them?

8 In Indian sporting works one more often reads of tigers being located in “nullahs” or patches of jungle than amongst bamboos. The tiger, moreover, ranges into Siberia, and to the shores of the Caspian, where bamboos, presumably, do not grow, or are not common.

9 “Descent of Man,” pp. 543, 545.

10 Darwin mentions one conspicuous instance.

11

12 By inappreciative asses.

13 Or the man he quotes—and absorbs.

14 “Bird Watching,” p. 28.

15 “Bird Watching,” pp. 9-15.

16 The nakedness in this case rather; but I use the term conventionally.

17 Or might be, if any one cared to witness them. Nobody does.

18 “The Descent of Man,” pp. 41, 42.

19 “Bird Watching,” p. 284.

20 December 8, 1904, I think, or thereabouts.

21 Page 72.

22 There are two kinds of ostriches—the scientific, or professorial kind, that behaves in a way peculiar to itself, because it is “a ratite bird,” and the common, vulgar kind, as known to people in South Africa, who have observed its habits on the ostrich-farms. For the first, see various authorities, and for the second, Mr. Cronwright Schreiner, in the Zoologist, as mentioned above.

23 “Bird Watching,” pp. 60, 61.

24 The female peewit, it must be remembered, acted in much the same way as the male, and the sexual antics of many birds seem to be identical in both sexes.

25 This, in itself, has the appearance of design only. The bird, however, works from within, and, if I mistake not, there would be a growing tendency for the structure, as it rose in height, to bend over inwards rather than outwards.

26 Something, that is to say, of a utilitarian nature. One should watch monkeys also.

27 As, were it the true one, this nest should have done—but did not, as I remember. Instead, it stood firm through the time of sitting and rearing.

28 “Bird Watching,” pp. 104, 105.

29 Hudson’s “Argentine Ornithology,” vol. i., pp. 72-79.

30 The facts of migration should be studied in regard to this. See Professor Newton’s “A Dictionary of Birds,” pp. 562-570.

31 Compare, for instance, with the “Out of the Deeps,” &c., these lines of Catullus—

32 “Translated,” like Bottom—but more radically.

33 But see pp. 319, 320.

34 See ante, pp. 131, 132.