Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 94
VENTRILOQUISMAMONG BIRDS w 4^ There are many accom- .y plishments which the ^ lower animals seem to possess inherently, but which man can only gain through great application. It would take a long time for a boy to learn tomake the sort of snare that a spider spins in-stinctively, and a colony of… … NECK AND HEAD OF WILD GUINEA-COCK. One of the human accomplishments hardest tolearn is ventriloquism. It seems to be a gift IHE MOURNING-DOVE CALLING. which comes to but few of the human species;yet among birds there are species every indi-vidual of which possess the power of making thevoice seem…
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