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THE SENSORIAL FUNCTIONS. 



find that they are easily deceived by anything 

 which bears a resemblance to it. Sir Busick Har- 

 vvood relates that some poultry, which were usually 



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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, appear to 

 have so little sensibility, that, after the wounds were 

 sewed up, both the fowls eventually recovered. 



The olfactory nerves are conspicuous in the 

 Dncli, both from their size and mode of distri- 

 bution. They are seen in Fig. 387, passing out 



through the orbit of the eye (o) in two large 

 branches, an upper one (u), and a lower one (l), 



