. A history of birds . nutes this display is repeated. I have seennot only one, but more than twenty cocks going through thisfunny operation at once, but then they seem careful not torun against each other, for they have not yet got to thefighting point. After a little while the lady-birds beginto show an interest in the proceedings by moving aboutquickly, a few yards at a time, and then standing still a shorttime. The party breaks up when the sun is half an hour high tobe repeated the next morning and every morning for a weekor two before all make satisfactory matches. It is toward thelatter
. A history of birds . nutes this display is repeated. I have seennot only one, but more than twenty cocks going through thisfunny operation at once, but then they seem careful not torun against each other, for they have not yet got to thefighting point. After a little while the lady-birds beginto show an interest in the proceedings by moving aboutquickly, a few yards at a time, and then standing still a shorttime. The party breaks up when the sun is half an hour high tobe repeated the next morning and every morning for a weekor two before all make satisfactory matches. It is toward thelatter part of the love-season that the fighting takes placeamong the cocks, probably by two who have fallen in lovewith the same sweetheart whose modesty prevents her fromselecting between them. The display of the Frigate-bird, though of a very differentkind, is no less remarkable. And we owe to Dr. C. the best account of this which has yet been descriptions are based on observations made upon Fregata. III. 21.— Pouch of Great Bustard, Dissected to Show its Relation toTHE Gullet and Windpipe P. = Pouch. QL. = CEsophagus. T. = Trachea. H. = Hyoid. V. =Vascular tissue.
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