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many kinds voluntarily acting thus ri<;ht in the teeth 

 of all we should call ordinary or primary instincts in 

 them is really surpassing strange : and no explanation 

 I have as yet read exactly supplies at every point what 

 is demanded. Certainly, as we have seen, the expla- 

 nations of Mr. Darwin and Mr. Romanes are not 



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only unsatisfactory, but most inefficient, feeble, in- 

 ept, and even ignorant and misleading, since even a 

 faithful purview of the facts was not attained by 

 either. 



Since in one end of the room in which I wrote I 

 had my aviary, I was able to notice some things 

 which may not be generally noticed. Among half-a- 

 dozen or more canaries I had a hen linnet, a cock 

 goldfinch, and a cock mule. These, even when 



