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ton's had a singular dislike to Jews in Syria, taking a sly 

 bite at their probably bare legs when it had the chance. 

 Other dogs have shown marked aversion to particular articles 

 of dress (Berkeley), or to its colours, or to certain colours in 

 general, as well as to particular sounds. 



Striking antipathies are far from being confined to dogs. 

 I have been informed, by the proprietor of both animals, of 

 the singular dislike of a pony to a particular horse ; and it 

 has to be noted in this case, as in many others, that a marked 

 repugnance in one direction may co-exist with as decided a 

 preference or partiality in another. This same pony exhibited 

 a strong liking for certain other animals especially a calf 

 of which it made a companion, to the great annoyance and 

 jealousy of its own mother (cow). Cavalry horses frequently 

 show special aversions to individual men (Houzeau) ; while 

 Mongol horses resent the interference of all strangers a 

 fortunate circumstance that assists in the prevention of 

 horse-stealing among the Mongols. A certain pet green 

 linnet declines to pay his usual court to his mistress ' if she 

 has anything on which he dislikes, especially anything of a 

 red colour' ('Animal World '). Causeless hostility to parti- 

 cular persons has been noticed in the racoon, and aversion to 

 children has been described in a lori (Cassell). 



Quite as striking and strange frequently as certain 

 antipathies are certain apparently unreasonable predilec- 

 tions, partialities, likings, preferences, attachments giving 

 rise to companionships and friendships of a remarkable 

 kind. 



Thus a singular attachment is mentioned by Belt between 

 a young jaguar and the dog that had captured it : to the 

 latter it became ' greatly attached,' living with it in harmony 

 as a companion. And this is only a type of many similarly 

 strange and harmonious friendships between the most unlikely 

 animals. A local newspaper of high standing well known 

 to me describes a sitting hen as hatching her young in a 

 watch-dog's kennel (or couch). ' The two seem to under- 

 stand each other so well that, on the hen leaving or entering 



the couch, the dog rises and makes way Any attempt 



to abstract the eggs in the absence of the hen meets with the 



