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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.
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.
The fact is now so well proved by Mr. Moggridge, Dr. Lincecum, Mr. MacCook, Col. Sykes, and Dr. Jerdon, that no doubt is possible. See an excellent summary of evidence in Mr. Romanes's work. See also Die Pilzgaerten einiger Sud-Amerikanischen Ameisen, by Alf. Moeller, in Schimper's Botan. Mitth. aus den Tropen, vi. 1893. This second principle was not recognized at once.
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