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STORIES ABOUT BIRDS. 



In countries where the rice is grown, the cockatoos play just the same 

 jamc. They come in large companies, for they are as friendly and sociable 



THE NESTOR COCKATOO. 



with each other as the rest of their tribe ; and they settle in the rice-field, and 

 eat, and tear, and break, till there is no end to the damage. 



