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The question that the Californian schoolchildren put to me, "Have the birds got sense? " still "sticks in my crop."
Such extraordinary sense has been attributed to most of the wild creatures by several of our latter day nature-writers, that I have been moved to examine the whole question more thoroughly than ever before, and to find out, as far as I can, just how much and what kind of sense the birds and four-footed beasts have.