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Audubon relates that he reared and tamed a<br />

wild turkey which always ran away from any<br />

strange dog; this bird escaped into the woods,<br />

and some days afterwards Audubon saw, as he<br />

thought, a wild turkey, and made his dog chase<br />

it; but, to his astonishment, the bird did not run<br />

away, and the dog, when he came up, did not<br />

attack the bird, for they mutually recognised<br />

each other as old friends. (14. Hewitt on wild<br />

ducks, 'Journal <strong>of</strong> Horticulture,' Jan. 13, 1863, p.<br />

39. Audubon on the wild turkey, 'Ornithological<br />

Biography,' vol. i. p. 14. On the mockingthrush,<br />

ibid. vol. i. p. 110.)<br />

Mr. Jenner Weir is convinced that birds pay<br />

particular attention to the colours <strong>of</strong> other<br />

birds, sometimes out <strong>of</strong> jealousy, and sometimes<br />

as a sign <strong>of</strong> kinship. Thus he turned a reedbunting<br />

(Emberiza schoeniculus), which had<br />

acquired its black head-dress, into his aviary,<br />

and the new-comer was not noticed by any<br />

bird, except by a bullfinch, which is likewise

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