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species from the same country and with similar habits. 

 Each new species must be learned by means of repeated 

 and cautious experiments, and to the minds of thought- 

 ful lovers of nature, and observers of animal life, this 

 very want of uniformity affords a better hope of ulti- 

 mate success than if it were possible to reduce the 

 management of foreign animals to a rigid system, and 

 treat all creatures of kindred forms and similar 

 countries on the same stereotyped principles. 



