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small flocks or coveys, pi-incipally in sterile or rocky districts. It is said to 

 be very gentle aud unsuspicious, scarcely disturbed by the presence of man, 



and capable perhaps, as sug'^cstcd by Mr. t'assin, of being readily domesti- 

 cated. Nothing- definite is known as to their mode of breeding. (IJaird.) 



Female. 



