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bogotensis) in the eastern Andes, in addition to the regular Pigeon clucks 

 and cooing, has a loud, rough call, with a strong roll or 'burr' in it, sug- 

 geting a 'Klaxon' automobile horn. The White-winged Doves of Melopelia 

 are among the noisiest of the Pigeons. Indeed, a flock calling from a feeding- 

 tree, with their loud rollicking 'Hoo-too-coo-roooo, — Hoo-too-coo-roooo,' 

 reiterated interminably, recalls a group of victory-crazed undergraduates 

 'rooting' for their football team. I found that I could quite closely imitate 

 this and several other Pigeon-calls by whistling through my hands. 



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BOUCIER'S FOREST DOVE 



I heard only one of the big Guans, of the genus Crax. What I took to be 

 the fine black Curassow, at Buena Vista, sat one evening for half an 

 hour before sunset in the dense top of a great forest tree, and gave his 

 exciting cry, at intervals of half a minute, until the sun was well down and 

 the hurrying dusk began to deepen. I cautiously crept nearer and nearer, and 

 finally gazed up from directly below. Here I searched until my neck ached, 

 but though the cries came regularly and I constantly changed my position, 

 the bird was so well hidden that I never saw him, and at last I left him there, to 

 hurry out of the deepening gloom of the forest before it should get fully dark, 



