2S WILD TRAITS IN TAME ANIMALS. 



lies. The present writer, although he has never 

 been able to give much time to any branch of 

 study outside his profession, has been fortu- 

 nate enough to light upon several facts both in 

 physiology and general natural history which 

 had escaped the attention of abler students. In 

 addition to these he has chanced upon a hundred 

 curious hints and clues which may be regarded 

 as "spoor" leading possibly towards the lair of 

 more important quarry. And although prob- 

 ably many wild hypotheses so started will, when 

 finally run down, prove of little material profit 

 either to their captor or to science, yet the zest 

 such pursuits give to the study of natural history 

 is not only traceable to primeval methods of 

 getting a livelihood, but still takes no contempt- 

 ible place among the things which make life 

 worth livine. 



