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mountain-streams as late as 9 p.m. Mr. Bligh informs me that it is 

 unusual to find many together while feeding, but I imagine this depends 

 on the quantity of fruit there may be on any given tree ; he tells me he 

 once saw thirty or forty on a large tree in the Dambetemie gorge, 

 but never observed so many together on any other occasion." 



Butler describes its note as " far more like the hoot of an owl 

 than the coo of a Wood-Pigeon, a deep guttural ' hoom ' repeated at 

 intervals." 



