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Psyche 
[December 
The considerable number of mounds in open spaces in the 
woods is noteworthy : though not all open spaces contain mounds 
most of them do and in the woods very few mounds are found 
that are not surrounded by clear spaces of some extent. 
In the reg'on immediately to the north of this second map, 
dense thickets of new growth are interrupted by a few rounded 
clear spaces each with a large ant mound within it, surrounded 
by catbriars but not overshadowed by the trees that seem to have 
grown densely up to a line about ten fee from the mound, and 
stopped as if the presence of the ant community had prevented 
other trees from growing up near to the mound. 
The distribution of the 118 mounds shown in the second 
map with reference to more or less shading, may be shown in the 
following tabulation: 
Entire number 
Those in 
shade 
15 
12% 
Occupied 
4 
Deserted 
11 
118 
Those in 
sun 
103 
88% 
94 
9 
Part found 
in 1922 
Those in 
shade 
3 
5% 
1 
2 
51 in number 
Those in 
sun 
48 
95% 
43 
5 
Those added in 
4 years 
Those in 
shade 
12 
18% 
3 
9 
67 in number 
Those in 
sun 
55 
80% 
51 
4 
Thus whether we consider the entire number of mounds 
shown on the map or the part there in 1922 or those added in the 
past four years, the small percentage is in the shade, much the 
largest in the sun. 
Moreover almost all the mounds in the sun are occupied 
while the mounds in the shade are for the greater part deserted. 
While a deserted mound may be found in the sun this is not 
common and it is also rare that an active community is found in 
the shade. 
The larger number of deserted mounds recorded in 1926 is 
due to the wood fire having revealed old mounds long deserted 
and concealed under thick growth of honeysuckle so as to be in- 
visible. Many of these were doubtless deserted at the date of 
the first survey. 
Strangely enough the mounds that have become abandoned 
in the past four years are chiefly along the old wood road to the 
north, but no special reason for this is discovered and shading 
