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ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE. 
At 10.55 she came out again, and still did not remember the 
door. Though I was satisfied that she really wished 
to return, and was not voluntarily remaining outside ; 
still, to make the matter clear, I turned her out of 
a side window into the garden, when she at once 
returned to the hive. 
At 11.15 she came out again ; and again I had to show her the 
way back. 
At 11.20 she came out again; and again I had to show her the 
way back (this makes five times) ; when, however, — 
At 11.30 she came out again after feeding, she returned straight 
to the hive. 
At 11.40 she came out, fed, and returned straight to the hive. 
At 11.50 she came out, fed, and returned straight to the hive; 
she then stayed in for some time. 
At 12.30 she came out again, but seemed to have forgotten the 
way back ; after some time, however, she found the 
door and went in. 
Again : — August 24 at 7.20 a bee came through the post- 
ern : I fed her ; and though she was not frightened or disturbed, 
when she had finished her meal she flew to the window and had 
evidently lost her way ; so at 8 o’clock I in pity put her back 
myself. 
August 29. — A bee came out to the honey at 10.10 ; at 10.12 
she flew to the window, and remained buzzing about till 11.12, 
when, being satisfied that she could not find her way, I put 
her in. 
May, even those who seemed to know the postern, if taken 
near the other window, flew to it, and seemed to have lost 
themselves. 
This cost me a great many bees. Those which got into my 
room by accident continually died on the floor near the 
window. 
These observations show that even when a bee is not 
carried from the hive to the honey, but herself flies to it, 
her sense of direction is not alone sufficient to enable her 
to find the way back to the hive — or, rather, to the unac- 
customed entrance to the hive from which she had come 
out. Probably if the side window had been open, the bee 
would have returned to the hive round the corner of the 
house, and through the entrance to which she was most 
accustomed® But as it was she had to learn , by five or 
