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ing apprehension of alarm, and the same observation applies to 
hawks, bluejays and crows, as well as to some other species of the 
feathered tribes. The ruffled grouse’s fondness for scratching among 
chaff seems to point toa close relationship to the barndoor fowl (Gal- 
linacean), they own a sort of fellow-feeling with the ferre natuie, 
but are aliens in the presence of humanity. 
On one occasion, during last February, an acquaintance of the 
writer went quite early with his team and sleigh to the snowy woods, 
and on beginning to load the pieces of cordwood on his sleigh was 
startled by the violent uprising of a fine ruffled grouse out of the 
deep soft snow close to his feet ; in its fierce rush skyward, the man 
said that the cap on his head was jostled by the fluttering wings of 
the bird which seemed to have bivoucked on the spot, under its 
snowy coverlet. A few days after the events just narrated a little 
collection of the rejectments of a bevy of quail was noticed cne 
wintry morning near a lumberman’s bush road where the bird party 
had evidently reposed during the night. And ona second occasion 
a tew days subsequent to the above incident, another similar testi- 
monial was observed a few yards distant on the edge of the same 
trail, the quails having found that the sleigh-frequented track afforded 
security to the group from the nocturnal bird enemies. It may be 
here noted that there was a willow thicket in proximity to the sleigh 
road where the quail party was frequently seen feeding during 
daytime. 
The young of all wild animals do not seem to have an instinctive 
or inherent mood of distrust or wariness ; this trait sometimes, or 
rather often, seems to be acquired from the tuition of seniors. Young 
crows, when first leaving the nest, are easily captured, and young 
foxes when two-thirds grown, having a fondness for gamboling, are 
not very difficult of approach when sporting together on a fine day 
near the entrance to the burrow, and old maternal birds show great 
consternation at the lack of timidity in’ their fledglings when an 
enemy threatens. 
Mice (either field or house mice) seem an exception to this 
rule, for during the past winter we admired the acute and agile, 
mental and corporeal behaviour of some of these very juvenile 
rodents, the sharp penetrative and apprehensive glance that these 
bestow on an intruder in their domain, and their almost lightning-like 
