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He had no appreciation of the fact that that very small bird could 
have been swallowed, but as I saw him do it, there was no doubt on 
my part. Forsome minutes he labored to find that bird, even 
going to the bottom of the ravine, and I to change his thought 
shot another bird which fell into the ravine and was retrieved by 
him. 
Another time when his facial expression was very fine, was at 
a time when he caught a wounded duck that had fallen near me, 
and while he had her in his mouth I shot another duck, and this 
second one also falling very near me and the dog Barney opened 
his mouth and the bird he had in it flew away. Without taking 
his eyes off the fleeing duck he watched until she had lighted upon 
some high land away from the water. The next day I put him 
to work upon the high land to find the duck, and never did I see 
him more pleased than when he brought the duck yet alive to 
me. 
To give a statement of all the various strange proceedings of 
this dog would take too much space, for they are many, but to 
close I will give what perhaps was his last attempt to outwit me 
and to gratify his own high intelligence. 
While collecting birds and animals in Dakota in the fall of 1883, 
near the close of the season I shot a muskrat in one of the lakes. 
Barney went out to where it was, in shallow water upon a sand 
bar, rolled it over with his foot and came towards me without it. 
Speaking harshly to him he returned picked up the rat and brought 
it to me on shore. Going towards camp I signaled him to bring 
the rat with him; after a few moment she complied, and as he 
trotted along by my side for some distance in apparently high 
glee I thought no more about him until I got to camp, then look- 
ing around for him I could not find him. After a little while he 
ra 
The next morning at the door of my tent I accidentally shot this 
my best of companions, the dog who had been my assistant and 
watcher over many thousands of miles, by one of those most 
dangerous, yet very handy guns, the hammerless,—D. H. Talbot. 
AN AFFECTIONATE ANGORA Cat.—A, Espagne gives to the 
_ Kevue Scientifique a story of a half-breed Angora cat of exceed- 
ing docility and affection. During about fifteen days of every 
