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day, they fly continuously and in a straight line 
high overhead. About sunset they halt, and 
uttering low notes, dive into the thickets to va 
feed, and afterward to rest. They go singly, | .2 
or two or three together. The males 
come in advance, and instant- 
; ly announce their presence by a 
loud and joyous song, continual- 
ly emulating one another dur- 
ing the week or more that elapses 
before the arrival of the females. But this 
aie emulation does not end with vying in song; 
they have many pitched battles, chasing each other 
from tree to tree and through the branches with angry 
notes. The coming of the females offers some diversion 
to these pugnacious cavaliers, or at least furnishes a new 
casus belli; for, while they devote themselves with great 
ardor to wooing and winning their coy mistresses, their 
jealousy is easily aroused, and their fighting is often re- 
