Abnormal Cats' Paws

Abstract

IN reference to the recent articles in NATURE on six-toed cats, allow me to remark that the experiment about to be tried on one of the small islands off the English coast has apparently been anticipated at the village of Morriches Centre, on Long Island, where nearly all the cats have at least one supernumerary digit on all feet, and are currently called, in the place, “double-footed.” I have a specimen showing the abnormality distinctly. I say “apparently,” because there can be little doubt that at some time a single individual was introduced, which has become the ancestor of all the “six-toed” cats in the village.