34 FACULTIES OP BIRDS. 



nations ; a circumstance evidently caused by the 

 dress worn in infancy, which cramps the outer ears of 

 our children, and consequently injures the distinct- 

 ness of hearing in after-life. M. Majendie, however, 

 affirms, from experiment, that the removing of the 

 external ear altogether does not injure hearing more 

 than a few days, till the sufferer becomes accustomed 

 to the new condition of the organ ; though we should 

 think that this must depend on the age of the person. 

 Some individuals have the power of moving the 

 external ear, similar to what we observe in the lower 

 animals, but this does not appear to improve or in- 

 crease the hearing. 



Inside of the temporal bone, showing the position of the drum and bones 

 of the Ear, surrounded by the mastoid cells. 



