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Show 96 ME .. \NS OF EXPUESSIO~ CHAP. IY. "ti1no uttorino- his characteristic yell, designed, it would "seem, to terrify his antagonists." I saw the hair on tho Anubis baboon, whou angered bristling along the back, from the neck to the loins, but not on the rump or other parts of the body. I took a stuffed snake into the monkey-house, and the hair on several of the species instantly became erect; especially on their tails, as I particular I y noticed with the Cercopithecus nictitans. Brehm states 10 that the Midas cedipus (belonging to the American division) when excited erects its Inane, in order, as he adds, to mako itself as frightful as possiblo. vVith tho Carnivora the erection of the hair seems to be almost universal, often accompanied by threatening movements, the uncovering of the teeth and the utterance of savage growls. In the Herpestes, I have seen the hair on end over nearly the whole body, including the tail ; and the dorsal crest is erected in a conspicuous manner Ly the Hyrona and Proteles. The enraged lion erects his mane. The bristling of the hair along the neck and back of the dog, and over the whole body of the cat, especially on the tail, is familiar to every one. vVith the cat it apparently occurs only under fear; with the dog, under anger and fear; but not, as far as I have observed, under abject fear, as when a dog is going to be flogged by a severe gamekeeper. If, however, the dog shows fight, as sometimes happens, up goes his hair. I have often noticed that the hair of a dog is particularly liable to rise, if he is half angry and half afraid, as on beholding some o~ject only indistinctly seen in the dusk. I have been assured by a veterinary surgeon that l1e has often seen the hair erected on horses and cattle, on which he had operated and was again going to operate. 10 Illust. Tb.iorlobon, 1861, n. i. ::. 130. CnAr. n·. IN ANil\IAL • • vVhen I showed a stuffi d nako to a P ccary tl1e h · .. • , Ull rose In a wonderful n1anner along it back; and it does with the boar when enraged. An Ell,.. which gor d a man to death in the United State , i c1 scrib d a first b.randishi11g his antlers, squealing with rage and stampmg on the ground; "at lonO'th his hair was s en "to r1.s e an d stand on end," and th b n he plunged forward to the attack. 11 The hair likewise becomes er t on goats, and, as I hear frotn Mr. Blyth, on some Indian antelopes. I have seen it erected on the hairy Anteater; and on the Agouti, one of the Rodents. A female Bat, 12 which reared her young under confinement, when any one looked into the ·age "erected " tl1 fur on her back, and bit viciously at intrudino" fingers." 0 Birds belonging to all the chief Ord rs ruffle their feathers when angry or frightened. Every one 1nust have seen t~v@ cocks, even quite young birds, preparing to fight With erected neck-hackles; nor can those feathers when erected serve as a means of de~ nee for cock-fighters have found by experience that it i~ advantageous to. tri~ them. The male Ruff (Machetes pugnaw) likewise erects its collar of fcath r. w?en fighti~g. vVhen a dog approaches a coinmon h n wt.th her chickens, she spreads out her wings, rais s her tail, .ruffles all her feathers, and looking as ferocious a poss1b!e, dashes at the intruder. ~rhe tail is not always held 1n exactly the same position; it is son1etinF', so much erected, that the central feather , as in the a companying drawing, almost touch the back. Swans, when angered, likewise raise their wings and tail, and -------- 11 The lion. J. Caton, Ottawa Acad. of Nat. Science, May, 1868, PP· 36, 40. For the Capra .J]!]gagrus 'La.nd and Wnter' 18G7 J) ·n 1'' 'I l ' ' ' . ' • - c.Jf\ll( and 'Vat<:r,' July ~0. 1 '(j7, p. G;JO. II |