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Le Valliant's Travels trans. 1/105.

The Quails migrate at the Cape, but certainly never migrate from Robin I. which is only 2 leagues from the continent.

["The Quail is migratory in S. Africa, but stationary in Robin Island, only two leagues from the continent. (Le Vaillant Travels vol. 1. p. 105: Dr. Andrew Smith confirms this)." A posthumous essay on instinct. In G. J. Romanes, Mental evolution in animals. With a posthumous essay on instinct by Charles Darwin.]

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Le Vaillant trans 1/142. He tamed common ape of the Cape, which acquired an ascendancy over all his dogs, & when tired used to ride by compulsion on their backs.

Le Vaillant trans 1/267 In elephant left tusk always shorter, slenderer, smoother & more shining. Accts for this by trunk conveying food always from left to right; hence friction.— He also is accustomed to soundthe earth with left tusk.

By size of these holes African hunters judge of size of elephant. Bears on one tusk of mastodon.

Le Vaillant 1/387 In a red long tailed fly catcher the 2 very long feathers in tail remain only during 3 breeding months & then drop out & then the cock hardly distinguished from hen.—