Photo: O. J. Wilkinson. 



JACKDAW BALANCING ON A GATEPOST 



The jackdaw is a big-brained, extremely alert, very educable, loquacious 



bird. 



From Ingersoll's "The Wit of the Wild." 



TWO OPOSSUMS FEIGNING DEATH 



The Opossums are mainly arboreal marsupials, insectivorous and carnivorous, confined to the 

 American Continent from the United States to Patagonia. Many have no pouch and carry their 

 numerous young ones on their back, the tail of the young twined round that of the mother. The 

 opossums are agile , clever creatures, and famous for " playing 'possum, " lying inert just as if they 

 were dead. 



