5100 THE ZooLocist—OcToBER, 1876, 
to transmit by the co-ordination of inheritable organization 
alone. 
Amongst men fashions, habits, and feelings are thus per- 
petuated; such as are necessary or “fittest” surviving, whilst 
those less perfectly adapted to life drop out. A law, with regard 
to motives, habits, &c., may be laid down almost identical 
in statement to Darwin’s theory of the “Origin of Species.” A 
belief in this, however, does not at all necessitate the acceptance 
of Mr. Darwin’s views. Habits of action, we know, can be thus 
transmitted by association; as when an English child brought up 
in France only speaks French. 
The power of the sympathy of association may be noticed in 
looking at a flock of sanderlings, which wheel and turn as if under 
the influence of one spirit. May not the migrations of many 
animals be thus explained ? 
Man supplements the powers of his body by the use of imple- 
ments, and so varies his purposes or co-ordinated actions as give 
a choice as to what sort of business of life he will pursue. 
This choice of business to man may be compared to that of 
choice of species, and at once throws open conditions, of aetion 
and reaction, to the development of his intelligence of immense 
importance. The further consideration of these, however, as they 
are not enjoyed by brutes as well as man, would hardly be suited 
to the pages of the ‘ Zoologist.’ 
F. H. BALKwILt. 
Ornithological Notes from Perthshire. 
By J. WaiTaker, Esq. 
On the 20th of June last, when staying with a friend at The 
Barracks, Kinloch, Rannoch, Perthshire, we started for a day’s 
fishing to Loch Eaigh, about four miles distant from the Lodge, 
and as the walk was partly by the river and across a portion of the 
famous Moor of Rannoch, I had good hopes of seeing some birds 
breeding there that I had never before had the opportunity of 
observing. 
The first field we crossed was grass with a small piece of bog in 
the centre, on nearing which out flew a pair of redshanks, and 
their piteous cries and fearlessness led us to suppose they had 
young ones among the rushes. Leaving the field, and going on 
