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them seems to have courage enough to make an effort and pro- 

 ceed slowly to the exhibited rarebit, still peeping in diverse tones, 

 which is answered by the rest, obviously coaxing and urging, or 

 manifesting some signs that there is no danger in sight. Finally, 

 when he arrives at the place of the food, he will test it quickly, 

 and then hurries back to his crowd; after a little discussion he 

 returns back to the food again, calling in the meantime the rest 

 to come over. The crowd then proceeds also, gradually, accom- 

 paying the movements with differently scaled peeping tones, till 

 they all have arrived at the food; and after being convinced that 

 there is no danger to be expected from behind the windows, they 

 will take charge of the food and begin to devour it in an unusual 

 manner, exclaiming at intermissions some effectively suppressed 

 tones. Then, after they have satisfied their stomachs, all will rise 

 at the same time and fly back and mount the tops of roofs, trees 

 or similar high objects nearby, and then commence a tremendous 

 twittering, apparently to demonstrate their success. 



Forms of Signals. Many observers of chicken life will have 

 noticed, when the rooster has discovered a grain or rarebit on the 

 ground, that he will exclaim at once in a quick tempo and in high 

 note, similar like thus: "took! took! took!" and upon this signal 

 one or more of the hens will break off their excursions and dash 

 for the rooster, who stands there still unmoved, pointing with his 

 beak to the object on the ground. 



There is another incident of chicken life. When the chicken 

 crew take up their daily excursions into the fields nearby, the 

 rooster, it will frequently be observed, will continuously spy 

 around to detect danger. Sometimes he will decline his head a 

 little on the side in order to have a convenient outlook to the 

 sky, to discover the outlines of a hawk scoping for prey. And 

 should the rooster discover his enemy way up in the sky, calmly 

 performing his aerial circles, then the rooster will demonstrate his 

 indignation in a very low and extended tone, similar like this: 

 "G u rrr!" which is apparently a sign of alarm to call the atten- 

 tion of his crew that there is danger in sight ; they all will stop for 

 a moment, but then will proceed again in their search for food. 



The rooster will still keep his eye on the enemy; but at the 

 very moment the hawk is making an attempt to change the tempo 

 of his aerial evolutions and making some suspicious motions, the 



