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" As a moth emerges from a Chrysalis, dries its 

 wings, and flies away, so the young Telegallus, 

 when it leaves the egg, is sufficiently perfect to be 

 able to act independently."* Nor is this all ; the 

 curious instinct by which the Bird prepares an 

 artificial Incubator for its young is an instinct born 

 with it — an Innate Idea expressing itself in con- 

 genital habits of body. The chick of another 

 Species of this singular family of Birds, the Mega- 

 pode, was found in confinement to be incessantly 

 scraping up sand and gravel into heaps, and the 

 rapidity and power with which it effected this oper- 

 ation is described with astonishment by its captor. 



These may seem far-fetched illustrations, and of 

 slight value in so dark a subject ; but let us re- 

 member that there are no solitary facts in Nature. 

 There are indeed extreme cases, — extreme ex- 

 amples of universal laws, — that is to say, of laws 

 whose operation is ordinarily restrained within nar- 

 rower limits. But there is no fact standing really 

 alone — not one which is not bound to the 

 whole Order of Nature by deep analogies. That 

 any creatures should be ushered into life so com- 

 * Gould's Birds of Australia. 



