188 ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE 



PHYSICAL. Its eyes are changing colour, being a sort 

 of blue-grey. Paws no longer splayed. Its fur is 

 darker in colour. It is rather a light tabby. Fore-legs 

 not quite straight. Tail carried vertically a great deal. 

 To-day spends much time sleeping behind the barri- 

 cade. When taken out, it goes back persistently. 



Still sucks the mother, using the fore-paws vigor- 

 ously in pressing on the mammary glands. 



It may be said to jump out of the box now rather 

 than scramble out, i.e. lands on floor with a sort of 

 leap, though it still scrambles in much as before. 



33rd day. Found behind the barricade this morning 

 before daylight. When trying to prevent its advance 

 in a certain direction, the kitten evades me by running 

 under a rocking-chair, where it is partly hidden. 



See it trying to catch a fly in the pan to-day. 



When put in the pan now it nearly always paws the 

 sand whether there is anything further or not. 



Mother and kitten play together to-day for the first 

 time. 



Though the book-shelves were closed by a curtain 

 tacked on them, the kitten managed to get in, though I 

 do not know how. 



Now goes towards persons sitting or walking in the 

 room, and wanders about more or less. 



Is startled by water running from a sink with down 

 suction to-day, though about 30 feet distant. 



34th day. In a sort of perverse play bothers its mother 

 so much that she puts her forelegs about the kitten to 

 hold it quiet. Then the latter scratches so vigorously 

 with hind-legs that the mother cries out. 



To-day the kitten is kept in the pan, notwithstanding 

 restlessness and crying, till it passes fceces for the first 

 time here. This followed by much grooming of itself, 

 as in an old cat. 



The kitten has now a look of much greater intelligence. 



