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* Very nervous, due to slip in transfer. 



Although these records are not ideal, owing to disturbances 

 which occurred on the first da}'- with pigeons nos. i and 2, and 

 owing to the brief period oxox which the training tests extended, 

 the conclusions toward which they point are not uninteresting. 

 If kinaesthetic cues were of more importance in negotiating turns 

 than visual ones, this fact should manifest itself by the birds 

 making errors at cul-de-sacs nos. i and 4 and butting into the 

 end of the alley marked B.^=* Now an error at alley no. i w^as 

 never made, while at some time every bird save pigeon no. 5 

 entered blind alley no. 4. Again, at no time did a bird butt 

 into the wall at B. The conclusion must be that visual cues 

 were of more importance than kinaesthetic ones for no. 5. With 



*^ See figure 3. 



