ITS Expedition to the 



two or three notes could not be distinguished from the bark 

 of a small terrier, but these notes are succeeded by a length- 

 ened scream. 



The wonderful intelligence of this animal, is well worthy 

 of note, and a few anecdotes respecting it may not be amiss. 

 Mr. Peale constructed and tried various kinds of traps to 

 take them, one of which was of the description called " a 

 live trap," a shallow box reversed, and supported atone end, 

 by the well known kind of trap sticks, usually called the 

 " figure four," which elevated the front of the trap upwards 

 of three feet above its slab flooring ; the trap was about six 

 feet long, and nearly the same in breadth and was plentifully 

 baited with offal. Notwithstanding this arrangement, a wolf 

 actually burrowed under the flooring, and pulled down 

 the bait through the crevices of the floor; tracks of different 

 sizes were observed about the trap. This procedure would 

 seem to be the result of a faculty beyond mere instinct. 



This trap proving useless, another was constructed in a 

 different part of the country, formed like a large cage, but 

 with a small entrance on the top, through which the animals 

 might enter, but not return; this was equally unsuccessful; 



2. Pelidna cinclus. Var. Above blackish-brown, plumage edged with 

 cinereous, or whitish; head and neck above cinereous with dilated fuscous 

 lines; eyebrows white; a brown line between the eye and corner of the 

 mouth, above which the front is white; cheeks, sides of the neck and throat 

 cinereous, lineate with blackish-brown; bill short, straight, black; chin, 

 breast, belli/, vent and inferior tail coverts pure white, plumage plumbeous 

 at base; scapulars and lesser wing coverl-j margined with white; greater 

 wing coverts with a broad white tip; primaries surpassing the tip of the tail, 

 blackisti. slightly edged with whitish, exterior shaft white, shafts whitish 

 on the middle of their length; rump blackish, plumage margined at tip 

 with cinereous tinctured with rufous; tail coverts while, submargins black; 

 tail feathers cinereous margined with white, two middle ones slightly 

 longer, black, margined with white; legs blackish. A male. 



Length to tip of taib • . . 7 inches. 



Bill • . .' . .7-8 of an inch. 



This bird was shot in November, near Engineer Cantonment; and it is 

 probably a variety of the very variable cinclus in its winter plumage. 



