A Book on Birds 



laughable spectacles in nature. Love seems 

 to set him daft completely, his idiotic ten- 

 dencies under its influence showing them- 

 selves chiefly in a most remarkable stretch- 

 ing and twisting of his long neck, with 

 many outlandish movements in every pos- 

 sible direction, whenever sitting near his 

 fiancee — the insanity of it all quickly com- 

 municating itself to her with similar results. 

 Two boys whom I once called to watch 

 a pair thus affected, and perched about a 

 yard apart on the branch of a cherry tree, 

 declared in astonishment that they acted 

 as though they had been drinking. But I 

 told them it was intoxication of another 

 kind. 



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