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Stewart — Estimating character by scent — The dog's 

 nose in judging character — Effect of human odour on 

 animals — Wolves in the Zoological Gardens — Wolf- 

 children — The jaguar's beneficent impulses — Bear and 

 puma — The mystery explained .... 83 



VII 



Little knowledge of savages available — Observations on 

 the lower animals — Nose-greeting in animals — Smell in 

 savages — Our unconscious sense of smell — Gypsies and 

 savages on a level — Nerves of smell — The dog in his 

 world of smells — Small woodland beasts in their world 

 — How we are moved by hidden causes — Antipathies — 

 Classical cases and modern instances — Antipathies and 

 second sight — A strange case; clairvoyance or sense 

 of smell ?........ 103 



VIII 



An explanation and apology postponed — Smell in birds — 

 An ancient controversy — The vulture's two aspects 

 — ^The way of the vulture — Pigeons — Smell in crows — 

 Daws and ravens — Carrion crow — ^The rook's double 

 nature — An uncanny rook story — Panic fear in mam- 

 mals — Horses and cattle scenting grass and water — 

 Great stampedes preceding Indian invasions — Indian 

 warfare in Argentina — A little frontier tragedy . 119 



IX 



The way this book is being written — The hind in Rich- 

 mond Park again — An imaginary colloquy — Sense of 

 direction in animals and man — Snakes — Insects — A 

 foraging ant — Fishes, batrachians, birds and mammals 

 — Smell in self-preservation — Horses: the history of a 



