SUGGESTIONS AS TO LIFE HISTORY NOTES (Birds, Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians) Markings and coloration (meanings apparant as associated with significant circumstances: directive, disruptive, concealing). Speed (gait, climbing, swimming, walking, running, flying); tracks. Abundance: by impression; censuses. Plant associates: habitat; environment (define distinctive ecologic niche or biotope in which each animal is found). Range (home range or "cruising radius" of indi- vidual, topographic and geographic range of species, any indications of change in range). Call-notes or voice (interpretations whenever circumstances give any clue); "songs" of birds. Migrations (regular, irregular, local, altitu- dinal, geographical); movements and flight. Degree of gregariousness (including "social in- stincts"); manner or means of communication (as voice, gesture, touch, and smell-signals). Nests, dens and lairs; breeding habits (including number of young, length of breeding period, mating; whether promiscuous, polygamous, monogamous; relations of individuals of family group to each other); modes of locating nests or homes; sanitation; solicitude; reactions of young; care of young; mastology (distribu- tion of mammary glands). Boldness; belligerence; intolerance; shyness. Food-habits; forage range; manipulation of food; storage. Scatology (dung or feces). Acuteness of the various senses (touch, taste, sight, hearing, smell, and direction). Enemies; disease (parasites, internal and external). Odd partnerships; commensalism; any biotic inter- relationships apparant. Age (length of life of individual). Refuges: from enemies; for resting or roosting. Dormancy: hibernation or estivation; evidences of: places where undergone.