190 SENSATION, IDEATION, 



it, aud scarcely had the hawk touched the ground, about tweW« 

 yards from where she had been sitting, when she fell upon it with 

 such fury that it was with difficulty that I could rescue it from 

 immediate death. Equally striking was the effect of the hawk's 

 voice when heard for the first time. A young turkey which I had 

 adopted when chirping within the uncracked shell, was, on the 

 morning of the tenth day of its life, eating a comfortable break- 

 fast from my hand, when the young hawk, in a cupboard ^jnst 

 beside us, gave a shrill chip, chip, chip. Like an arrow the poor 

 turkey shot to the other side of the room, and stood there motion- 

 less and dumb with fear, until the hawk gave a second cry, when 

 it darted out at the open door, right to the extreme end of the 

 passage, and there, silent and crouched in a corner, remained for 

 ten minutes. Several times during the course of that day it again 

 heard these alarming sounds, and, in every instance, with similar 

 manifestations of fear." 



Other most interesting observations are cited concerning 

 the Instinctive Acts of chickens, ducklings, and young 

 turkeys, more especially in reference to their mode of 

 seizure and disposal of food.* Facts are not wanting, 

 moreover, to show that the same kind of inheritance of 

 mental and bodily capacities, and of likes and dislikes, 

 obtains among higher animals. Instances of this will 

 be given in a subsequent chapter. f One, however, may 

 here be cited. •» 



" So old is the feud," says Spalding,J " between the cat and the 

 dog, that the kitten knows its enemy before it is able to see him, 

 and when its fear can in no way serve it. One day last month, 

 after fondling my dog, I put my hand into a basket containing four 

 blind kittens, three days old. The smell my hand had carried with 

 it set them puffing and spitting in a most comical fashion." 



Facts of the kind above cited enabled Douglas Spalding 

 to deduce the following all-important conclusions : — 

 (1) That young chickens can display an intuitive Perception 



* " Macmillan's Magazine," pp. 287 and 288. t See pp. 211, 229. 

 X " Nature," Oct. 7, l'<7^, p. 507. 



