[207] Thompson, Passions in Animals, p. 337.
[208] Vol. viii., Washington, 1877: 'A Monograph of the North American Mustelidæ.'
[209] It is particularly remarkable that if under these circumstances a rabbit bolts and, seeing the sportsman, doubles back into its burrow, being then certain that the sportsman is waiting, it will usually allow itself to be slowly and painfully killed by the ferret rather than bolt a second time. This is remarkable because it proves the strength of an abiding image or idea in the mind of the animal.
[210] See Watson's Reasoning Power in Animals, and Quarterly Review, c. i., p. 135.
[211] See especially Jesse, Gleanings, &c., iii., p. 206; and Quarterly Review, c. i., p. 135.
[212] Thompson, Passions of Animals, p. 368.
[213] The Rat, its Natural History, p. 102.
[214] Mrs. Lee, Anecdotes of Animals, p. 264.
[215] Jesse, Gleanings, &c., ii., p. 281.
[216] Reasoning Power in Animals, p. 293.