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that of the same nerves in granivorous birds. 

 In the latter, indeed, they are exceedingly small ; 

 and as the natural food of that tribe has but little 

 odour, we find that they are easily deceived by 



any thing which bears a resemblance to it. Sir 

 Busick Harwood relates that some poultry, which 

 were usually fed with a mixture of barley meal 

 and water, were found to have swallowed, by 

 mistake, nearly the whole contents of a pot of 

 white paint. Two of the fowls died, and two 

 others became paralytic. The crops of the 

 latter were opened, and considerably more than 

 a pound of the poisonous composition taken from 

 each ; and the crops, either naturally, or from 

 the sedative effects of the paint, appeared to 

 have so little sensibility that, after the wounds 

 were sewed up, both the fowls eventually reco- 

 vered. 



The olfactory nerves are conspicuous in the 

 Duck, both from their size and mode of distribu- 



