[25] Animal Intelligence, p. 242.
[26] Romanes refers to Silliman’s American Journal, February 1872.
[27] These cases would seem to contradict the statement made on p. 82 that small families occur when the young are protected by the parents. I cannot explain this exception. But what I have stated about the dependence of the birth rate on the amount of parental care is commonly true. In this connection I would quote Mr. Pycraft (Infancy of Animals, p. 214): “A careful survey of the facts shows us that the production of large numbers of eggs and young produces the same result as obtained where but few eggs are laid, and are either carefully guarded by the parents or are specially protected by some other means.”
[28] Quoted by St. George Mivart.
[29] Pycraft, ibid., p. 218. The story of this excellent father and also several of the other cases given are taken from Yarrell, Brit. Fishes, 2nd edit., ii. p. 436.
[30] J. Lewis Bonhote, British Birds, pp. 314-315. See also The Truth about Woman, pp. 107, 249, 265.
[31] P. Chalmers-Mitchell, Childhood of Animals, pp. 70, 109, 157.
[32] Several examples are mentioned in Darwinism, p. 281. Wallace, however, brings them forward in quite a different connection to prove his theory of the protective duller colours of the female birds.
[33] P. 136 et seq.
[34] See p. 221, which is evidence that, perhaps, may be held to give some corroboration.