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simple ones either. Max Miiller contended that ideas 

 are impossible without language, and if he was correct 

 we must apparently dismiss these conclusions and 

 relegate the whole proceeding to blind and unreason- 

 ing impulses ; but it seems to me that the onus rests 

 with those who take this view, of explaining the 

 nature of these impulses, their source and mode of 

 origin, and it is so difficult to furnish any satisfactory 

 solution on these lines that it is apparentl}^ more 

 reasonable to regard the actions I have described as 

 evidence of ideas, emotions, and calculations, differing 

 in degree, but not in kind, from those which we ex- 

 perience ourselves. 



ZTbe HDaapic ^anaQcr. 



By J. H. Harrison. 



Large variet}' fCissopsis major). 



Small variety fCissopsis leverianaj . 



[To help readers in more readily distinguisliinof between 

 these two species, a full description is given below from the 

 B. M. Cat. of Birds, Vol. XL— Ed]. 



C. levei'iana. " Aljove pure white; whole head and neck 

 " down to the interscapulium shining black ; wings and tail 

 "black; lesser wing coverts, spots at the ends of the greater 

 " wing coverts, margins of outer secondaries, and ends of the 

 " tail feathers white ; below white; throat and breast, extend- 

 " ing in a point down to the middle of the belly, shining 

 "black; feathers lanceolate, under wing coverts white; bill 

 " and feet black ; whole length lo', wing 4-5", tail 5-4. Female 

 " similar. 



" Hab. : Guiana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, aud 

 " Bolivia." 



C. major. " Above pure white ; whole head and neck, ex- 

 " tending in a point down to the lower part of the interscapu- 

 "lium, shining black; lesser wing coverts, spots at the ends of 



