Show DLUB EYED CATS I llarnla Hnll They Mere Alwny Deaf 11utIeee Art Iceplloua I notice tho following In your luue of toiliiy ut the foot ot the seventh column of the second page Illue eyed can are uld by Darwin to be ale ways deaf It Trot Darwin made uch a atatcment without any qualification qualifi-cation he wa certainly In error In 1871 I had a blueeyed yellow male cat which could hear erfectly and It I had been aware that Mr Darwin had made the above mentioned statement I would have communicated with him on the ulijecl and taken great pita ure In hawing him a ipeclmen of a bile eyed cal that could hear and I I r hale no doe Ihlll rinin nt naturalist would have I n lighted 11 see It Thl cat wn 1an In I my house In Harnse near Iximtnn In tell and dial s evaraf I t ears Inter In llerkshlr there 10 the lty of Oxford It never rented le surprise any one that this cat although llur eyed could hear There Is I a ire slot Idea and one which nwy 1o entirely correct that white vats nlih blue eyes are dent I have n while bale eat with blue eyes which Is I perfntiy deaf He Is I at this moment lying I on the table where I am writing U may he Interesting to naturalists to learn Hint this sal though dent Is 1 by no means dumb and Hint It mews In the nnme tone of lolc I an other cms xvhlch nre In iHismslon of the faculty of hearing Thl would seem In loll Cale Ih1 PO far as onllnal are rnn cerned hearing Is I not n prerequisite to the ability In utter sounds as In Ito case with human Mugs but that noises made by animals are Instinctive In-stinctive and the result of Imitation Ix |