. Birds in flight . u u>Qa to < o Mg o MMIII CHAPTER V Courtship Flights A pair of falcons wheeling on the wing,In clamorous agitation . . Wordsworth. The wing-play of blackgame and grouse—^The musical ride of the snipe—The reding of the woodcock—^The musical flights of redshank and curlew—The tumbling of the lapwing—^The ravens somersaults—The courting flightof the wood-pigeon—The manakins castanets —Wings as lures—^The strangepose of the sun-bittern—The wooing of the chaffinch and the grasshopper-warbler— Darwin and wing-displays — The wonderful wings of the arguspheasant. ONE of the m

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. Birds in flight . u u>Qa to < o Mg o MMIII CHAPTER V Courtship Flights A pair of falcons wheeling on the wing,In clamorous agitation . . Wordsworth. The wing-play of blackgame and grouse—^The musical ride of the snipe—The reding of the woodcock—^The musical flights of redshank and curlew—The tumbling of the lapwing—^The ravens somersaults—The courting flightof the wood-pigeon—The manakins castanets —Wings as lures—^The strangepose of the sun-bittern—The wooing of the chaffinch and the grasshopper-warbler— Darwin and wing-displays — The wonderful wings of the arguspheasant. ONE of the most striking features of bird-life is surelyits restless activity. This is always apparent, but itattains to a state of almost feverish excitement as the springadvances, and the parental instincts re-awaken. As theygather strength, so they manifest themselves, in outbursts ofsong—often of exquisite beauty—strange antics, or wonderfulevolutions in mid-air. It is with these last that we a

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