284 Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



A circus-horse would require to lead with the outer fore-leg — 

 that is, the leg further from the ceutre of the circle. In going 

 the reverse way about the leading leg would require changing, 

 but this mode of action more especially depends on cantering 

 or galloping. I recommend the study of this theme to those 

 who have time and methodical patience. If you take a dog, 

 and fasten him to a stake a small distance from his kennel, 

 allowing him room to get round it, you will soon see him 

 wound short up and crying because he is unable to enter the 

 kennel. He never by any chance sees the necessity of walk- 

 ing round the stake the opposite way, but will remain so 

 shortened up until he dies, although food and water may be 

 only the length of the chain away. Notice the chain is fitted 

 with a swivel, and why? Because we know by experience 

 (without understanding) that the dog will actually " go around 

 hnnself," and so, if there be no swivel, knot the chain short 

 up. He never by any chance will turn the opposite way, and 

 so take the turns out of the chain and benefit by its full length. 



I have, unfortunately, never taken special note as to 

 whether, say, one goat may go right about and another left 

 about, or must they all go round the same way as the sun, as 

 we are told to stir the pudding in the making. 



After the manner of the rams and bulls, the buck goats 

 associate together for half the year. This inherited instinct 

 no doubt descends to them along the branches of the same 

 ancestral tree. 



I have no evidence of the goat suffering from GEstriis grubs, 

 but have noticed them fight the fly by stamping on it, and by 

 the goat rubbmg its nose along the ground as if to clear away 

 the insect or its eggs. 



Art. XXXIII. — Maori Spirals and Sun-iuorship. 



By Edward Teegear. 



{^Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 11th July, 1899.] 



Plates XXII.-XXIV. 



In calling attention to the subject of sun-worship, the great 

 difficulty that arises is not from want of material, but from 

 the vast array of expert evidence, and the enormous range 

 over which the erudition of modern scholars inquiring in this 

 direction has extended. In one branch of the inquiry alone — 

 viz., the meaning of the swastika cross — a huge pile of books 

 and pamphlets has accumulated, and to wade through all the 



