2oa THE PSYCHICAL KINSHIP 



times if necessary, and each time with increasing 

 energy. It contended with the courage of a little 

 hero. I pushed it and jostled it about, and even 

 took it in my hand and lifted it clear out of the 

 water. To my amazement, on getting back into 

 the water, it returned promptly to the attack. It 

 fought until it was really fagged, for its onsets 

 were at last much feebler than at first. I came 

 away after twenty minutes, leaving the little hero 

 in triumphant possession of his charge. 



Among some species of monkeys several indi- 

 viduals will join together in overturning a stone 

 for the possible ants' eggs under it ; and, when a 

 burying beetle has found a dead mouse or bird, it 

 goes and gets its companions to help it in the 

 interment (20). Crows show benevolence by 

 feeding their blind and helpless companions, and 

 monkeys adopt the orphans of deceased members 

 of their tribe. Brehm saw two crows feeding in 

 a hollow tree a third crow which was wounded. 

 They had evidently been doing this for some time, 

 for the wound was several weeks old. Darwin 

 tells of a blind pelican which was fed upon fishes, 

 which were brought to it by its friends from a 

 distance of thirty miles (15). The devotion of 

 cedar-birds to each other and their kindness to all 

 birds in distress are well known to every student 

 of ornithology. Olive Thorne Miller tells of a 

 cedar-bird that raised a brood of young robins 

 that had been left orphans by the accidental 

 killing of the parents. Weddell saw more than 

 once during his journey to Bolivia that when a 



