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burrow to which they return after their everyday 's 
constitutional walks or as soon as some unusual 
noise or unaccustomed figure startles them, and 
there they live until nearly half grown, when they 
associate with the rest of the herd. 
At my place, the Patagonian Cavies have 
adopted the one and same burrow at the foot of a 
larch on the lawn for all their nursery purposes, 
and it is' often occupied by several litters of differ- 
ent sizes. As this general nursery is just in front 
of my study windows, I have had opportunities 
for observing many interesting particulars of the 
animals' intimate life. On one occasion, a female, 
whose young had been still-born, took to tending 
the young of another couple, and acted as nurse, 
sheltering in a burrow which the parents have only 
just roughly began to excavate in some dry soil 
and which the youngsters set immediately to sink 
deeper and to accommodate to their liking. The 
amount of earth which they draw out is quite mar- 
vellous, and I have never seen the parents give 
any help nor even enter the burrow, though I hear 
they do in some other places. At suckling hours 
male and female come to the entrance and, calling 
their young by a sort of low grunt, they look the 
very image of "Patience sitting on a monument," 
until the young condescend to come out and have 
their repast. The little cavies continue in the 
but after a few days of peaceful community, want- 
ing to have them all to her self, she prevailed on 
the poor innocents to follow her at the far end of 
the park where she hid them under a stack oi 
fagots. The parents, on their return home, not 
finding their young answering to. their call, were 
out of sorts, and began exploring the grounds to 
seek them. When after several hours' search 
they found the truants, they rapidly sent them 
home with a vengeance and administered such a 
thrashing to the unfaithful, nurse thai she no 
longer dared to conic lo I he burrow in the day 
time, but, by moonlight, she again tried to entice 
