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SIR HARRY LUMSDEN allows me to publish the following little incident:—Late last autumn some partridges, which he had tamed and kept about the house, disappeared as usual and became wild. When the excessive cold set in and Aberdeenshire was deep in snow, Sir H. Lumsden was greatly pleased and surprised one morning to find his old friends on the doorstep waiting to be fed. Next morning they appeared with a wild covey of eleven birds, and the tame cock sat on the doorstep and crowed to the wild birds, evidently encouraging them to come and eat the food, which, however, they declined to do till it was put further from the house, Soon after the tame birds appeared with two covies. How did they entice the wild birds except by actual bird talk?
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SEVERN, W. Intellect in Brutes. Nature 19, 291 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019291a0
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