PAKT II. 



SQUIRRELS: THEIR HABITS AND INTELLI- 

 GENCE, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO 

 FEIGNING. 



WITH AN APPENDIX 

 UPON THE CHICKAREE, OR RED SQUIRREL. 



I. 



UNTIL recently the habits of animals seem to have 

 been considered simply as interesting manifestations of 

 their life, but without any special reference to their 

 relations to the intellectual part of the creatures 

 concerned. But unless we assume that animals are 

 devoid of mind and true intelligence an extreme and 

 untenable position there must be a possible science of 

 Comparative Psychology, as there is of Comparative 

 Anatomy and Physiology. The study of animal intelli- 

 gence is possible, interesting, and important, whether 

 we regard man as derived from some lower form, and 

 his intellectual as well as his physical being the result 

 of evolution, or whether we consider that man stands 

 wholly apart in origin either as to body or mind. In 

 the latter case the study of the lower forms of mind 

 affords a useful contrast with its highest develop- 

 ment as seen in man ; in the former we aim at the 

 construction of a ladder by which we may climb from 

 the simplest manifestations of consciousness to the 

 highest performances of the most gigantic human 

 intellect. 



I have selected the study of squirrel psychology as 



