. Crusoe's Island; a bird-hunter's story . looks. On the arrivalof the female, then,the trio—the twomales and the fe-male — flew downto a fallen branch,. Dancing manakins. where they alighted, and the gallants began a livelyduet. I have seen many strange performances inbird life, but never before one like this. I was aspectator and full in sight, but they were so intentupon their love-making that they regarded me not atall. Sitting a little apart from her lovers, the littlecoquette demurely held her head on one side, preenedher feathers occasionally, and pretended to take notthe slightest inte
. Crusoe's Island; a bird-hunter's story . looks. On the arrivalof the female, then,the trio—the twomales and the fe-male — flew downto a fallen branch,. Dancing manakins. where they alighted, and the gallants began a livelyduet. I have seen many strange performances inbird life, but never before one like this. I was aspectator and full in sight, but they were so intentupon their love-making that they regarded me not atall. Sitting a little apart from her lovers, the littlecoquette demurely held her head on one side, preenedher feathers occasionally, and pretended to take notthe slightest interest in the play that was performedfor her exclusive benefit. But the performers did 120 CRUSOES ISLAND. not seem to take that as a slight, for they threw theirwhole hearts into the acting. First one of them jumped up into the air sometwo feet, followed by the other as he came down,and thus they continued for several minutes, passingand repassing each other in the air, and uttering thequeerest of notes, like Craw, craw, craw-crawwhich sounded like the cawing of distant did not fly into the air, but seemed to leap,each with head lowered,
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