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have some notion of zoological affinities, for those kept by Brehm exhibited a strong, though mistaken, instinctive dread of innocent lizards & frogs.

[CUl-DAR157.15] (The principle of Imitation is strong in man, & especially with man in a barbarous state. But no universal voluntarily imitating as Desor *(5) has well remarked, no animal voluntarily imitates an any action performed by his master, until in ascending the scale we come to monkeys, which are well known to be ridiculous imitators. (a) (text) But from information given me which I have received from Prof. Asa Gray, that I have reason to believe that puppies nursed by cats learn to lick their feet & thus to clean their faces. Singin Birds certainly imitates the song of other birds, & parrots are notorious mockers.

(Hardly any faculty is more important