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the beast sprang seizing the pseudo-snake. There was an attempt 
at a shake ; but its illusion had vanished. Such a look of silly as- 
tonishment and feline disappointment as followed cannot be 
described. All that can be said is, this new experience had its 
manifestation. As sometimes with other hunters, pussy’s prey 
was not worth the powder, and she turned away in disgust. e 
exact nature of her perplexity we cannot know; for still the 
hissing was kept up. Although decidedly at fault in its attack on 
the strip of cloth, yet this whole affair seems to me a case of 
awakened instinct. It is a year and a half since she has been 
here. How much of recollection of individual knowledge, or ex- 
perience ; and how much of awakened inherited habit, or instinct, 
and what the concatenation of these things might be in that feline 
thinking, are perhaps problems to be referred to some future me- 
taphysicist in zoology. One curious habit of this cat deserves 
mention. Her cry, whether caused by want of food or any other 
attention, is exactly that of our American puma (Felis puma 
Shaw) popularly known as the panther or painter. I have heard 
the female puma’s cry so piercing and distressing, and the like- 
ness is so close, that the sound of pussy’s cry is positively an- 
hoying to me. The difference between them is entirely one of 
loudness, Even the very timbre, or quality of tone is identical. 
The cat is black and white and in disposition as gentle as others, 
even showing affection. I ought to say that when a kitten she 
was a favorite of my lamented friend, that accomplished botanist, 
the late Dr. P. D. Kineskern, and even in the pains of his de- 
parture her kitten gambols on his bed entertained that good and 
excellent man, who is known in posthumous fame as the philoso- 
pher of the Pines.— SAMUEL LOCKWOOD. 
Wolf (Canis lupus L., race occidentalis Rich., strain griseo-albus 
lower jaw. ‘The extra tooth is a molar behind the last true molar, 
making three teeth back of the large sectorial one. It is small 
(about as much less than the last true molar as this one is less 
