46 PKINCIPLES OF STOCK-BREEDING. 



could sometimes stick them at night. On an island 

 in the sea of Aral, when first discovered by Butakoff, 

 the saigak antelopes, which are ' generally very timid 

 and watchful, did not fly from us, but, on the con- 

 trary, looked at us with a sort of curiosity.' 



" So, again, on the shores of the Mauritius, the 

 manatee was not, at first, in the least afraid of man, 

 and thus it has been in several quarters of the world 

 with seals and the morse. I have shown elsewhere 

 how slowly the native birds of several islands have 

 acquired and inherited a salutary dread of man; at 

 the Galapagos Archipelago I pushed, with the muzzle 

 of my gun, hawks from a branch, and held out a 

 pitcher of water for other birds to alight on and drink. 



" Quadrupeds and birds which have seldom been 

 disturbed by man, dread him no more than do our 

 English birds, the cows, or horses, grazing in the 

 fields." 1 



Dr. Kidder, in his description of the " sheath-bill " 

 (Chionis minor), on Kerguelen Island, says, " When I 

 sat down upon a rock and kept perfectly still for a 

 few moments, they crowded around me like a mob of 

 street boys around an organ-grinder," and " all seemed 

 perfectly fearless and trustful." 2 



That the descendants of such animals, inheriting 

 the accumulated experience of their ancestors, become 

 wild, is shown in the instinctive dread of man exhib- 

 ited by the young of the same and allied species that 

 are frequently brought into contact with him. G. 



1 Darwin's "Animals and Plants under Domestication," vol. i., p. 

 33 ; Carpenter's " Mental Physiology," p. 90. 



8 The Popular Science Monthly, April, 1876, p. 661. 



