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a partial list of the more important instincts. Certain vocaliza- 

 tions, such as the whimper and the purr; sucking, which is 

 active until the young are four months old; creeping; climbing, 

 the latter beginning to appear at a very early age. At one 

 month of age it is able to sustain its own weight with one paw 

 by clinging to a support ; in this instinctive attitude it is diffi- 

 cult to remove the young animal from bushes, etc. Playing, 

 with parts of its own body; rolling a small object between the 

 forepaws ; engaging in mock combat ; pretence of biting the 

 hand, etc. Following; fear; anger; curiosity; dipping food in 

 water; the sex group does not appear until the twelfth month. 

 In drinking they lap water or milk with the mouth close to 

 the fluid. When heated, they pant much like dogs, with tongue 

 slightly protruded. In sleep, one position assumed is that of 

 lying on the back with the fore paws over the eyes ; another is 

 rolling the body into a ball with the top of the head placed 

 flat on the floor between the forepaws. 



ORIENTATION 



Birds. Menegaux (17) proposes to study the migrations of 

 the European quail in order to determine the route of migra- 

 tion and the winter feeding grounds. It is known that the 

 birds cross the Mediterranean and arrive in Morocco, Algeria, 

 Tunis and Tripoli in autumn, but beyond this there is little 

 definite knowledge of their movements. The experiment planned 

 will involve the banding of 500 birds in France for the study 

 of the autumn France -to -Africa migration; of 500 in Algeria 

 and Tunis for the loute of return to France; and, finally, of 

 500 in Egypt to determine whether the Egyptian birds return 

 to Prance or go into Asia Minor and the region of the lower 

 Danube. The author expects that the twelve and a half per 

 cent, of returns usually obtained from marked birds will give 

 sufficient data to establish the lines of migration and the regions 

 in which it will be necessary to protect the quail in order to. 

 maintain the supply in France. While this work is undertaken 

 chiefly from the point of view of economic zoology, it may 

 furnish data upon orientation of interest to the student of 

 behavior. 



Mammals. Cornetz (5) compares the method of orientation 

 in the ant and the rat. He considers first an experiment of 



