Txie Guinea-hen seldom essayed more than this, but the 
Goose repeatedly thrust out his long neck over her speckled 
back and thence beneath one of her folded wings until his 
head appeared just beyond it -- a grotesque attention 
which seemed to give both birds especial pleasure and satis¬ 
faction. Th8,t all these demonstrations, together vxith 
the vocal sounds accompanying them, must be interpreted 
as already suggested is open to no question, ad least in 
my mind. Similar behavior wan adterwards indulged in danly, 
if not hourly at every season, but perhaps neverggain so 
rapturously as on the first occasion. The affectionate 
devotion thus indicated seemed to be equally shared by 
both birds and v/holly unalloyed by sexua.l passion, though 
otherwise so lover-like. Continued without known inter¬ 
ruption or abatement through the ensuing year,it apparently 
dominated individual tastes and preferences to such a 
degree that little or no interest v;as taken in any pleasure 
or pursuit which could not be shared in common. Tet these 
companions differed no less obviously in character and 
temperament than in physical attributes, the Goose being 
confiding, intelligent and placid-minded, the Guinea-hen 
perversely distrustful and nervously restless -- after the 
usual manner of her kind. Perhaps this very dissimularity 
formed the chief basis of their romantic friendship, jiust 
as the so-termed "attraction of opposites" is thought to 
promote human relations of corresponding kind so often 
entered into happily by persons altogether unfike and other¬ 
wise seemingly unsuited to get on well together. 
