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should be on his guard against statements of a too 
sweeping character. My own observations, etc., on the 
chick, agree pretty well with those of Prof. Lloyd 
Morgan on young pheasants (“Nature,” vol. x1, p. 575).* 
It will be seen from my records that even in the 
same clutch of chickens there are marked individual 
differences. Thus one may strike a crumb accurately 
every time it pecks, and pick it up on the first attempt ; 
another misses, or shows great difficulty in getting it 
into the mouth. 
But few remarks are called for in the diary, in view 
of what has already been published on the chick by 
others. 
I call special attention to the failure of the chicks to 
be frightened at any time within my records (fourteen 
days) by the pigeons placed amongst them, in a way 
that one would have supposed might have called forth 
any instinctive dread of a rather large flying bird. 
My own impression is that chicks do not, in all cases, 
show fear when the shadow of a bird, as a hawk, passes 
over them. In other words, instinct is not the hard 
and fast thing it is sometimes supposed to be. 
The sense of support, not referred to by other 
observers, is well marked. 
The chick is very sensitive to cold, though I think 
less so than the pigeon, except in, perhaps, the case of 
the most delicate varieties, as pure-bred bantams. 
Some Conclusions on the Chick. The Chick and the 
Pigeon, ete., Convpared. 
The chick, when it emerges from the shell, or very 
soon afterwards—certainly within a few hours—can see, 
* See also this author’s ‘‘ Habit and Instinct.” 
