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CHAPTER V - . - 26 



Blending of subconscious mind — Ants : sense of 

 direction — Bees and wasps : sense of direction — Souls of 

 animals — " Group-souls " — Zone of telepathy — Proces- 

 sionary caterpillars: habits illustrative of mind- 

 blending. 



CHAPTER VI 32 



Review of Processionary caterpillars — Actions of 

 animals due to infallible subconscious mind — Difference 

 between reasoningandsubconscious mind — Subconscious 

 mind, pure expression of All-Mind — Illustration: spider's 

 Web^Community of processionary caterpillars : exam- 

 ple of " Nature in her Divine purity " — Experiment by 

 Fabre (French naturalist) — ^Meddhng with nature's 

 arrangements — Silken thread : guide to nest- — Bufi-Tip : 

 larvae— Small Eggar moth : larvae — Colonizing of 

 Melitasa aurinia — Ermine moth — Gregarious larvae of 

 saw-flies : examples of mind blending. 



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CHAPTER VII 



Blackbird and Thrush — Willow- Warbler and Wood- 

 Warbler — Spontaneous knowledge — Water Ousel — 

 Crowned Hornbill — Nuthatch — Long-tailed Tit — 

 Golden-crested Wren^ — Golden Oriole — Pensile nests — 

 Pigeon's nests — Rock Dove — Stock Dove — Ring Dove — 

 Magpie — Firewood-Gatherer. 



CHAPTER VIII 



Wild-Duck — Shell-Duck — Colours and markings on 

 birds' eggs — Hedge-Sparrow's egg — Guillemots — ^Modi- 

 fication of guillemot's egg — Eggs of plovers, woodcock, 

 etc. — Position of eggs in nest. 



CHAPTER IX 56 



Bird aware of addled egg — Pied-Flycatcher : personal 

 incident — A revelation in natural history — Birds and 

 others removing their belongings — ^The Cuckoo's case. 



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