A stroke of the knife bad severed the larynx and removed the whole mass of the cerebrum, leaving the inner aspect and base of the skull exposed.

The cerebrum was partly removed; the external auditory meatus was preserved.

Immediately after the decapitation the rooster was left to its supposed death struggles, but it ran headless to the barn, where it was secured and subsequently fed by pushing corn down its esophagus, and allowing water to trickle into this tube from the spout of an oil-can.

The phenomena exhibited by the rooster were quite interesting.

It made all the motions of pecking, strutted about, flapped its wings, attempted to crow, but, of course, without making any sound.