1884. ] Psychology. 95 
C. H. Townsend, while Mr. J. A. Allen notes certain exceptions to 
the law of increase in size northward among North American 
birds——The July number contains faunal lists and notes, with 
some notes on habits ———_Dr. Coues records, through G. F. Crook, 
a curious case of susceptibility of a caged red linnet to color. If 
anything blue is shown, it becomes terribly excited, and utters 
painful cries. H. W. Henshaw records an instance of semi- 
domestication of the California quail, while F. Stephens describes 
a California bird-crane, Dendreca occidentalis, being the most 
abundant migrants. A supplementary list of the birds coi- 
lected by Dr. Dybowski, in Kamtschatka, given in a recent issue 
of the Bull. de la Soc. Zodl. de France, raises the total number, 
including the swimming birds, to a hundred and thirty-four. 
new species of Astur, A. candidissimus, is described, also Hirundo 
kamtschatica, a species of Troglodytes, and Phyllopseuste homeyert, 
In the Proc. U. S. National Museum, Mr. R. Ridgway de- 
scribes Psaltriparus grindae and Junco bairdi, also a new variety of 
Lophophanes inornatus, all from the MS. of and from examples 
sent by Mr. L. Belding from Lower California. Anthus cervinus 
Pallas, before thought to be exclusively Asiatic, is also noted as 
occurring in Lower California. 
PSYCHOLOGY. 
INTELLIGENCE OF THE CaT.—One of the attractions of my 
home has ever been the number and variety of the pets we have 
kept, and to which liberty has generally been accorded. Thus 
they had an opportunity to develop their natures without great 
restraint; and I, to gratify my love for the observation of character 
in animals. Prominent among these pets were gophers, chip- 
munks squirrels-——black, gray, red and flying—robins, mocking- 
birds, cats and dogs, which were entirely free, and a robin, several 
Canaries, a fox, a bear, a bald-headed eagle, and several owls which 
were somewhat curtailed in their privileges. 
As the intelligence of the cat has called forth some notice of 
late, let me add a few facts which have come under my observa- 
tion. On introducing a new puss into the “happy family,” I 
found that notwithstanding her reputed treacherousness and self- 
ishness, a few kind, decided words, with considerable watching, 
and an occasional gentle spat, so well convinced her of the rights 
of others, that so far as those individuals are concerned in about 
© weeks she was conquered, and could be trusted to be ina 
room or out of doors alone with them. A young snipe being 
brought me, and all my efforts at taming it proving futile, for it 
‘Would run away, I wanted the old cat to catch and have it. She 
‘Would not touch it, helped us to “corner” it, but would not bite 
It, and after it was killed, she still refused to eat it, seeming to 
_ Fecognize it as one of her clan. 
Many think cats have a memory of places only and not of per- 
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