The record-union., 1893-02-27

cording to the character of the person
they are with. They feel gratitude. are
capable of devotion and attachment, and
sometimes die OF grief at the loss of theil
master.
My parrot. Coco-Gris. was given me
by friend in March, 1875. 1t was so ex-
tremely wild, timid, and delicate that III
despair OF tanning it l was about to give il
PACK when l noticed its growing conf
dence and kept it. Another friend then
gave me green female parrot from Bra
zil, winch l named Coquette. She was
already tame and she has helped me to
tame Coco-Gris. My parrots take break
last, dinner, and tea with me on their
perch, and spend the rest of the time in
their cage on the balcony.
very soon noticed Coco Girls
whlstlIng and repeating words, and | de-
voted myself to teaching him the usual
phrase, Have you had a good dinner,
Poll? He soon knew it perfectly, and
from that time we became great friends
and have remained so ever since. Coco
Girls often takes his lesson on my shoul-
der, and if he already knows the words |
repeat to him tells me so by making q
certain noise. My pupil is anxious to
learn and remembers things that he has
oDserN ell for himself, things that | have
not taught him, and thus his knowledge
increases. He speaks with inimitable
perfection more than fifty ingenious SEN
tences. Coco-Gris also whistles and
sings IN most charming way many airs.
But the most remarkable thing is that
his sentences are not pronounced hap
hazard, but are often singularly ap-
proprlate; thus, when he is put into his
cage, he says, 4 am going into the cage,
and whsn he is given some dainty, Here
IS something good; when he is swinging
ne VIII say, "Coco-Gris is swinging and
when Coquette screams, Come CogueLte,
you mustn't scream; if she is singing,
GU sing well, oh very we'll" When
Coquette and Coco-Gris are walking
ABOUT III the dining-room and Coquette
Deglns to sing, Coco says, Some one is
singing and if he is asked who is sing
ing. he replies, 1t is Coquette.' Ii
Coquette goes under the sideboard, he
says, What are you doing there, CO.
quette?' and when l scold my servant
somewhat sharply, Coco, joining in the
conversation will say, What, you do not
understand y
Il let my birds out of the cage at meal
times, put them on their perch, and then
go into my Office to wait till the meal is
served. If Coquette gets down from the
perch to follow me, Coco says to her,
w hat are you doing, Coquette? we will
soon have something good Coquette
having come to find me, Coco follows her.
>.
What are you doing there?' That has
happened numb ber of times.
1he 9Th of August, 1884, lad Coco
with me on the cars, and we had been
travelling several hours when the bird
said TO me in a frightened tone as | ap-
preached the cage, But what are they
doing" He kept repeating this question
and scarcely said anything else. After
reachlng the chateau of X. he would not
eat, and to my reproaches and those OF
my servant replied, Il am not hungry
some may be tempted TO doubt these
appropriate remarks, but they are per-
tectly true, however improbable they
may seem. Many have heard them.
Now, how can the extent of the bird S
memory be explained, and that articula-
ton and intonation so like the human
voice that nothing is left to be desired?
how can the two mandibles of which its
beak is composed utter labials without
lips, dentals without teeth, and gutterals
without a larnyX like ours. These ques-
tions may well puzzle one Versed in
acoustics. And how can we explain the
information that reproduces low tones
with beak whose capacity is not more
than one or two cubic centimeters? Once
more, these phenomena demonstrate that
our science is limited in some directions. -
BENYENUTo CELLINPs DOG.
acts llhC lilO lOllON Idhtll lTOIn Ino
memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini, attest the
marvellous instinct of the canine race and
are not very rare.
A robber one night made his wav into
Cellini's studio, and the artists dog at
first tried to attack the thief, who was
armed with sword; then, running to the
room occupied by the workmen, he
wakened them, pulling the covers from
their beds and shaking them by the arms.
III Of
portunities the workmen drove the ami
NAL from the room and locked the door.
The dog then started in pursuit of the
robber, who had gained the street, and
seized him by the mantle; but the thief
had the presence OF mind to call Mad
dog ~ which brought a number of people
to his assistance, and for the time he es-
capped punishment.
a long time after, as Cellini was one
day walking in public square at Rome,
his dog suddenly sprang upon young
man and tiercely clung to him, not with
standing the swords and clubs of the by
ISLANDERS. He was finally made to release
the young man, who retired so hastily
that he let several small objects fall from
undor his cloak, and among them Cellini
recognized a ring belonging to himself.
''Oh," cried he, "it is the miscreant who
entered my studio at night, ana my dog
has recognized him. and as he spoke he
set the animal free, when the robber
hastened to ask pardon and to confess his
crime.-M. Jacolliot, in 1nterOcean.