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Mae rcecienily its tail rs were very much crushed and injured. I tried to explain
lag 4 - - 1 1 them as perfect i and that they should
ay i to ow apparently satisfied
either Kili them I | 5 : : ee ae
that all was fair, | 3 upon them, six oth goods, some for one
bed’ fe tot re, and chee said they had to go a long way for them, and that
Aes ould ci tach fe so At intervals of a few days or a week some of them
or , turn, bringing 1 but tl h they did not bring any more in bags, there was
on anual in the forest, ae would
ale in their house till they
oe é get among the ashes, or
hang suspended by nes die of starvation and
WHOA | had
dead that its stom:
and strong that th
to clean them so well that they did not pe
brought me the same they were and I had an oppo ey of examining them in all their beauty
and vivacity. As soon as I found they were gene rally brought alive, I set one of my men to make a large
bamboo cage, with troughs for food and to keep some of them. I got the
batives to bring me branches of a fruit th v ; and I was pleased to find they ate it
greedily, and would also take any number of live er isshopper s I gave them, strip s and wings,
and then swall é *y drank plenty of water, and were in constant motion, jumping about the
c from perch to } cl { sides, and rarely a moment the first day till night-
fall t were always less active, although they would eat as freely as before ; and on the
morning of the third day tl ey were almost always found without any
appare use. Some of them ate boiled rice, but, after trying many in

succession, not one out of ten lived more than

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‘hestnut-brown, darkest on the
the wings springs a mass of deep
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ne 1 back fall two very long and less shafts, black and twisted, which descend on either
: s ot the tail in graceful double curves. a id, like the side plumes, constitute y very conspicuous appendages.

kemal a oe pant e head, chin, , and throat very dark chestnat-brovn, Back of head, and
a yt of breast yell Mie RBe: part of back or mantle dark ochre-yellow. Entire rest of plumage,
Including wings and tail, dark brownish chestnut.

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