. The expression of the emotions in man and animals . ale Ruff (Ma-<chetes i^ugnax) likewise erects its collar of feathers^vhen fighting. When a dog approaches a common henwith her chickens, she spreads out her wings, raises hertail, ruffles all her feathers, and looking as ferocious aspossible, dashes at the intruder. The tail is not alwaysheld in exactly the same position; it is sometimesso much erected, that the central feathers, as in theaccompanying drawing, almost touch the back. Swans,when angered, likewise raise their wings and tail, and The Hon. J. Caton, Ottawa Acad, of Nat. Scien
. The expression of the emotions in man and animals . ale Ruff (Ma-<chetes i^ugnax) likewise erects its collar of feathers^vhen fighting. When a dog approaches a common henwith her chickens, she spreads out her wings, raises hertail, ruffles all her feathers, and looking as ferocious aspossible, dashes at the intruder. The tail is not alwaysheld in exactly the same position; it is sometimesso much erected, that the central feathers, as in theaccompanying drawing, almost touch the back. Swans,when angered, likewise raise their wings and tail, and The Hon. J. Caton, Ottawa Acad, of Nat. Sciences, May, 1868,pp. 3G, 40. For the Capra JEgagrus, Land and Water, 18G7, p. Land and Water, July 20, 18G7, p. H 98 MEANS OF EXPRESSION Chap. IV. erect their feathers. They open their beaks, and makeby paddling little rapid starts forwards, against anyone who approaches the waters edge too birds ^^ when disturbed on their nests aresaid not to fly away, but merely to stick out their feathers and scream. The Barn-owl, when ap-. Fig. 12. Hen driving away a dog from her chickens. Drawn from life by Mr. Wood. preached instantly swells out its plumage, extends its wings and tail, hisses and clacks its mandibles with force and rapidity. ^* So do other kinds of , as I am informed by Mr. Jenner Weir, likewiseruffle their feathers, and spread out their wings and tail *^ Phaeton ruhricauda : Ibis, vol. iii. 18G1, p. 180. *?* On the Strix flammea, Audubon, Ornithological Biography,18G4, vol. ii. p. 407. I have observed other cases in the ZoologicalGardens. Chap. IV. m ANIMALS, 99 under similar circumstances. Some kinds of parrotserect their feathers; and I have seen this action in theCassowary, when angered at the sight of an cuckoos in the nest, raise their feathers, opentheir mouths widely, and make themselves as frightfulas 23ossible.
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