THE EUFF. 



MACHETES PUGNAX. 

 Male i» SpW«,-Face covere<l w«h Yf °^f ^^''^Sfun^isLt I'iiT, 



and spotted with brown. 



Both the systematic names of this bird are descriptive of 

 its quarrelsome propensities: machetes is Greek for ' a 

 warrior," pugna^ Latin for "pugnacious." Well is the 

 title deserved; for Euffs do not merely fight when they 

 meet, but meet in order to fight. The season for the in- 

 dulgence of their warhke tastes is spring; the scene, a 

 risin- spot of ground contiguous to a marsh ; and here all 



