. The bird, its form and function . ^ remove the upper part of a birdsskull, we find that the brain occupies the whole interior,. Fig. 145.—Comparison of skulls of Heron and Hawk, showing unlikeness causedby difference in manner of procuring food. the shell or box of bone which protects it being very thin,although strong. It would be very interesting if we couldcompare the short and thick bullet-shaped skull and brain 200 The Bird of a rapacious hawk with the thin-templed head of atimid heron and say, phrenologically/ in the first wehave the bump of combativeness well developed, analo-gous to
. The bird, its form and function . ^ remove the upper part of a birdsskull, we find that the brain occupies the whole interior,. Fig. 145.—Comparison of skulls of Heron and Hawk, showing unlikeness causedby difference in manner of procuring food. the shell or box of bone which protects it being very thin,although strong. It would be very interesting if we couldcompare the short and thick bullet-shaped skull and brain 200 The Bird of a rapacious hawk with the thin-templed head of atimid heron and say, phrenologically/ in the first wehave the bump of combativeness well developed, analo-gous to a prize-fighter; in the second case, timidity isprominent! But unfortunately, characteristics such asthese are compound, and made up of many simple fac-tors, the synthesis of which is not confined to any par-ticular bump. At the first sight of the birds brain we are struckwith the very great size of the two larger masses of brain-matter—cerebral hemispheres these are called. It is inthese that the higher faculties reside, and when these aredestroyed, all knowledge, all power of voluntary move-ment passes from the bird.
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