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If the lady is thus cloistered as closely as in the most jealous harem, her lord and master at least expends on her the most attentive cares. Bernstein, "Ueber Nester und Eier einiger Javaschen Vögel," Cabani's Journ. f. Ornith., 1859. What can be the object of this strange custom? It has been asserted that during incubation the female loses her feathers and becomes unable to fly.
I remember our first meal in the queer little cheap hotel we rooted out. "Eier" was the only word on the bill of fare we could make out, so Carl brushed up his German and ordered four for us, fried. And the waiter brought four each. He probably declared for years that all Americans always eat four fried eggs each and every night for supper.
See also Burmeister, "Ueber die Eier und Nester einiger brasilianischen Vögel," Cabani's Journal für Ornith., 1853, pp. 161-177. Masons working in association. Ants have already furnished us with numerous proofs of their intelligence and their prodigious industry. So remote from Man from the anatomical point of view, they are of all animals those whose psychic faculties bring them nearest to him.
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