82 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



without my seeing him, I was always notified of the fact by a 

 series of barks, screams, and grunts. 



When I first searched for insects in the Transvaal, and in a 

 valley beneath high cliffs, I was intensely surprised to find the 

 stones turned over before my arrival. Being positively certain 

 that no other geodephagous coleopterist was in the neighbour- 

 hood, I was somewhat inclined, like the Eoman missionaries, 

 who, on their arrival in Thibet, found Catholic ritual among the 

 Buddhists, to ascribe the circumstance to occult influence ; but 

 this was before I became acquainted with the insect-searching 

 attributes of my friends the Baboons. 



I am not aware of any published records of the menstrual 

 periods of female Baboons. These are not zoologically un- 

 important, and appear to be somewhat irregular. My observa- 

 tions on one animal during 1894-5 were as follows: — Oct. 15th, 

 Nov. 23rd, Dec. 27th, Jan. 30th, March 8th, April 15th, May 

 20th, July 4th, Sept. 9th, Oct. 21st. 



