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particular species of chuparosa is all of an iridescent 

 green, save the head, which is capped with shimmering 

 gold. Occasionally two would meet, hum and poise 

 before each other for a fraction of time, their deeply 

 forked tails scissoring open and shut, then launch them- 

 selves fiercely at each other and fight out their little 

 quarrel within a foot of us as we sat at breakfast. 



A GOSHAWK NEAR CAMP 



