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long attenuated feathers, W ith barbs disarranged < ant, apres re bulky
implanted, that they fall at the slightest

These too are SO feebly

than they really are.
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agitation ; and their skin is so delicate that it will tear at tl o s

«These birds are solitary and extremely jealous of their freedom. ‘They never fre-
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quent inhabited or open tracts. They delight 1 the silence of deserts, where they even

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flv the society of their consimilars. The interior of the thickest forests is their chosen

 

They are sometimes seen on the summit of trees ; but in general

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abode for the entire year.

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they prefer the centre, where they remain

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Here they lie in ambush for the insects

the ground, or even to the lower branches.

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which pass within their reach, and seize them with address and dexterity. Their flight

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Though they thus conceal themselves in the

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is lively, short, vertical and undulating.

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thick foliage, it 1s not through distrust ; for when they are im an open space, they may

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be approached so nearly as to be struck with a stick. They are rarely heard to utter

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any cries, except during the season of reproduction; and then their voice is strong
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sonorous, monotonous, and melancholy. ‘They have many cries, from the sound of one of

which their name is derived.”

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All those whose habits are known nestle in the holes of worm-eaten trees, which

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number of eges is fr : rere

eggs is from two to four; and the young are born totally naked; but ther

feathers beein ; 7 r thr
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ion of the Trogonide in tl 2
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a subject of debat st ornitholocy

) e amongst ornithologists; but that the family is a very homogeneous one

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: Brent Huxley, in his Classification of Birds (P. Z.S. 1867,

 

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under the following arrangement :—

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