. Birds of other lands, reptiles, fishes, jointed animals and lower forms; . time the bird sees very imperfectly, if at all; in fact,he seems so preoccupied that, if pursued, one may often approach unnoticed. I have walked upto a rolling cock and seized him by the neck, much to his surprise. Just before rolling, acock, especially if courting the hen, will often run slowly and daintily on the points of histoes, with neck slightly inflated, upright and rigid, the tail half drooped, and all his body-feathers flufted up; the wings raised and expanded, the inside edges touching the sides of theneck
. Birds of other lands, reptiles, fishes, jointed animals and lower forms; . time the bird sees very imperfectly, if at all; in fact,he seems so preoccupied that, if pursued, one may often approach unnoticed. I have walked upto a rolling cock and seized him by the neck, much to his surprise. Just before rolling, acock, especially if courting the hen, will often run slowly and daintily on the points of histoes, with neck slightly inflated, upright and rigid, the tail half drooped, and all his body-feathers flufted up; the wings raised and expanded, the inside edges touching the sides of theneck for nearly the whole of its length, and the plumes showing separately, like an open on each side of his head. In no other attitude is the splendid beauty of his plumagedisplayed to such advantage. The males are very fierce while guarding their eggs or fighting for mates, and kick withextraordinary violence with their powerful legs. As an example of their fierceness when aroused,Mr. Cronwright Schreiner, who knows much of these birds, relates a story, told him by a. thiK, In K. RrLq [ ,..,;. OSTRICHES TEN DAYS OLD The doiVTi-feathcrs of young ostriches arc •jurle different from those of other birds^the tips of each being produced into a horny ribbon
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