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 is an outcast and shunned by the whole com- 

 munity of the feathered race. Far from tend- 

 ing and instructing their progeny, the parent 

 cuckoos leave them to take their chance of 

 being reared by a non-migrating species 

 (usually), whilst they (the parents) quit the 

 country some two months in advance of their 

 offspring (known fact). And yet these young 

 cuckoos, who are not gregarious and who may 

 be seen singly, dotted about over the country, 

 manage to find their way from far north 

 (Norway) to Africa. 



Observation and memory will not account 

 for these performances ; but telaesthesia, a 

 faculty of subconscious mind, covers the whole 

 in a nutshell. 



Telaesthesia — perception at a distance or 

 power of vision transcending time and space — 

 is, I believe, a subconscious faculty possessed 

 by animals in a high degree. For reasons 

 given, telaesthesia, like some other subcon- 

 scious faculties, is but rarely manifested in 

 man. There are, however, authentic cases of 

 persons, in the trance or dream-state (when 

 self-conscious mind is in abeyance), having 

 very distinct visions of people and places with 

 minute details of surroundings entirely un- 

 known to the seer, but which afterwards have 

 been verified. It is needless to quote instances, 



