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or needless motions. Their note is a guttural, 

 rolling sound, which may be slightly represented 

 by the letters hrrr, krrrj it is useless, however, 

 to imitate it, excepting to turn their attention to 

 decoys. They are usually abundant the entire 

 spring. Chicago sixes are the proper-sized shot. 



