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expressed my conviction that animals have a power of 
communicating with each other, altogether beyond 
what has been generally surmised. The subject is 
beset with great difficulties, and calls for the closest 
observations. 
He 
I PROPOSE, in this second part of my paper, to discuss 
the subject of feigning in animals, and shall give, as a 
basis for my views in the case of the squirrels, an 
account of two Chickarees, in which such behaviour 
was strikingly manifested. 
Case I. 
I was standing near a tree in which a Red Squirre 
had taken up a position, when a stone thrown into the 
tree was followed by the fall of the squirrel. I am 
unable to say whether the squirrel was himself struck, 
whether he was merely shaken off, or how to account 
exactly for the creature’s falling to the ground. 
Running to the spot as quickly as possible, I found the 
animal lying apparently lifeless. On taking him up, I 
observed not the slightest sign of external injury. He 
twitched a little as I carried him away and placed him 
in a box lined with tin, and having small wooden slats 
over the top, through the intervals of which food might 
be conveyed. After lying a considerable time on his 
side, but breathing regularly, and quite free from any 
sort of spasms such as might follow injury to the 
nervous centres, it was noticed that his eyes were open, 
and that when they were touched winking followed. 
Determined to watch the progress of events, I noticed 
that in about an hour’s time the animal was upon his 
