126 The American Naturalist. [February, 
satisfaction. The melody that charmed their breasts was one 
which rose and fell in gentle and continual waves of sound; not 
very attractive perhaps to educated ears, but certainly riveting 
the attention of these untaught creatures, whose desires are com- 
monly supposed to be confined to the quantity and quality of 
their food, rather than to the enjoyment of the purer delights of 
sweet sounds.” 
In proceeding with the domestic animals it will be seen that 
the bovine group are entitled to a share of attention. 
MUSICAL COWS. 
“That pigs are not the only animals who take a delight in 
musical sounds, may be proved by the following incident of 
which I was a witness on more than one occasion. Opposite to 
our house was a large field in which some twelve or thirteen cows 
were put during the summer months. One day a German band 
commenced to play on the road which divided the house from 
the field. The cows were quietly grazing at the other end of the 
field, but no sooner did they hear the music, than they at once 
advanced towards it, and stood with their heads over the wall 
attentively listening. This might have passed unnoticed ; but 
upon the musicians going away, the animals followed them as 
well as they could on the other side of the wall, and when they 
could get no further stood lowing piteously, etc. * * * * So 
excited did the cows become, that some of them ran round and 
round the field to try and get out, but finding no outlet returned 
to the same corner where they had lost sight of the band, and it 
was some time before they seemed satisfied that the sweet sounds 
were reallygone. It seems a strange coincidence that both the pigs 
and cows were charmed by music produced by a German band.” 
OXEN AND MUSIC. 
“I have often noticed the power music has over ‘oxen. The 
other day we had a brass band playing in our garden. In a field 
adjoining were four Scotch oxen; when the band struck up, 
