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CHAPTER XIV 99 



Natural protections — Exposers and Concealers — ^Wild 

 Duck — Curlew, golden-plover and shore-birds — ^Attitude 

 of creatures on the approach of danger — Company move- 

 ments of birds and others — No leaders in true sense of 

 the meaning — Birds fljring in V-shaped figure — Flock of 

 birds actuated by one mind — Mind-blending : explana- 

 tion — Birds fall automatically into " wedge " shape — 

 Geese (Anser albifrons) — Golden-Plover over feeding 

 grounds — In nature, nothing impossible — Bird aristoc- 

 racy — Stints, dunlin, sandUngs and ringed-plover — 

 Telepathy, general throughout Animal World — Rooks : 

 Exposers — Starlings. 



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Concealers — Covey of partridges — All birds in the 

 covey rise simultaneously — Laggards, outside zone of 

 telepathy — Partridges dwell together in close associa- 

 tion — " Packing " of coveys — Attitude of concealment 

 helped out by colour resemblance to surroundings — 

 Mind-blending : gregarious animals— Sheep — Sheep, 

 crowding together — Stampede of horses and panic in 

 human crowd — " Psychology of crowds." 



CHAPTER XVI 117 



Quick response of subconscious mind — Movements, 

 characteristic of creatures — Thrush : example — Freaks 

 and deformities — Hereditary disease not possible in pure 

 nature — Birds dependent on senses of sight and hearing — 

 Eyes of birds, specially modified — Bird's vision includes 

 all-round view — Angle of parallax — Woodcock, snipe, 

 etc., position of eye-sockets— Equilibrium. 



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Animal instinct discredited — Quotation from Daily 

 Mail — Pigeon racing, national sport — " Homing " 

 instinct manifested throughout Animal World — Calf's 

 sense of direction : an incident — Pigeons : is training 

 necessary ?— Effect of fog on pigeons — Teljesthesia. 



