. Birds that hunt and are hunted; life histories of one hundred and seventy birds of prey, game birds and water fowls . Hi p .- Snipe, Sandpipers, etc. slow but energetic wing-strokes, close to the ground, its headraised high over the shoulders, and the tail hanging almost di-rectly down. As it thus flies, it utters a succession of hollow,booming notes, which have a strange ventriloquial quality. Attimes the male rises twenty or thirty yards in the air, and, inflat-ing its throat, glides down to the ground with its sac hangingbelow. Again he crosses back and forth in front of the female,puffin
. Birds that hunt and are hunted; life histories of one hundred and seventy birds of prey, game birds and water fowls . Hi p .- Snipe, Sandpipers, etc. slow but energetic wing-strokes, close to the ground, its headraised high over the shoulders, and the tail hanging almost di-rectly down. As it thus flies, it utters a succession of hollow,booming notes, which have a strange ventriloquial quality. Attimes the male rises twenty or thirty yards in the air, and, inflat-ing its throat, glides down to the ground with its sac hangingbelow. Again he crosses back and forth in front of the female,puffing his breast out, bowing from side to side, running hereand there. . Whenever he pursues his love making, his ratherlow but pervading note swells and dies in musical liquid notes may be represented by a repetition of thesyllables too-u, too-u, too-n. Like certain members of the grousefamily, the skin of the throat and breast of the male becomesvery loose and flabby, like a dewlap, during the mating season,and may be inflated at will to a size equalling that of the brought t
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