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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. 



II. 



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 Ked 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 



