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could hardly fail to elicit barks, tail-waggings, and move- 

 ments towards the exceptionally unopened door, and the 

 constantly accumulating excitement would surely lead 

 it at last to run out and bark without waiting for the 

 uttering of the word " Pigs " ; nor is it in the least sur- 

 prising to learn that the phenomena attending family 

 prayers at Miss Bramston's house should arouse in the 

 animal the same expectant feelings and therewith asso- 

 ciated actions, which had become so ingrained during its 

 residence at the Archbishop's. 



Mr. Romanes gives us yet again the oft-told tale 

 of the crows which "seem able to count." It is thus 

 related,* after Leroy, by our author : When about 

 to shoot the nests, in order " to deceive this suspicious 

 bird, the plan was hit upon of sending two men into the 

 watch-house, one of whom passed on while the other 

 remained ; but the crow counted and kept her distance. 

 The next day three went, and again she perceived that 

 only two returned. In fine it was found necessary to 

 send five or six men to the watch-house in order to put 

 her out of her calculation." 



But what wonder is there that a crow, seeing a man 

 go beneath her nest with a gun, should keep clear till 

 she had seen him go away ; even if, for a time, he had 

 hidden himself behind a bush ? Why, then, should it 

 be wondered at that the bird's mere sense-perception 

 felt a difference between the visual picture presented by 

 a group of three men and another presented by' only 

 two ? The wonder rather is that the creature should 

 not be more discriminative, as we always wonder that a 



* P- 57. 



