. The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world : being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture . y. Onone occasion, in the winter, I had placed it in its cage,in a room with a fire, where I had also two young 88 - - <Ml:stelil),e. alligators, which in general were stnpidly tame. OngOiiig into the room in the morning, I found the gri
. The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world : being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture . y. Onone occasion, in the winter, I had placed it in its cage,in a room with a fire, where I had also two young 88 - - <Ml:stelil),e. alligators, which in general were stnpidly tame. OngOiiig into the room in the morning, I found the grisonat large, and one of the alligators dead, with a holeeaten under the fore-leg, where the great nerves andbloodvessels were torn through ; and the other alligatorbegan snapping furiously at every one who attemptedto approach it. The same eminent naturalist else-where remarl-;s tliat this grison was as tame and affectionate as a dog; and she followed me, he adds, wherever I went about the house, was extremelyfrolicsome and playful, and was delighted at beingcaressed. She would throw herself on her back, andseize the hand that fondled her with all four of herpaws and her mouth at the same moment, pressing itwith her teeth, but never sufliciently hard to cause theslightest degree of pain. She was extremely fond of 2,<!.. The Grison (Galictis vittau) eggs, which she ate in a very singular manner. Onone being given her, she first played with it for sometime, running backwards and at the same time pushingit under her belly with her fore-feet. At length shewould fix one of her sharp canine teeth through theshell, and lick or suck as much of the contents aswould flow through the orifice. Then, again insertingher tooth, a piece of the shell was broken out so as toenable her to insert her tongue; and, finally, the egg-shell was broken to pieces and each fragment carefullylicked clean. The grison is an inhabitant of thenorthern regions of Brazil, the specimens hitherto seenin this co
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