Note IP — Chapter XI · ANIMAL ACTIVITIES: HABIT AND INSTINCT.

Mr. W. Larden states, in Nature (vol. xlii.), that his brother extracted, from the oviduct of a Vivora de la Cruz snake in the West Indies, two young snakelets six inches long. Both, though thus from their mother's oviduct untimely ripped, threatened to strike, and made the burring noise with the tail, characteristic of the snake.