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mountain-streams as late as 9 p.m. Mr. Bligh informs me that it is 
unusual to find many together while feeding, but I imagine this depends 
on the quantity of fruit there may be on any given tree ; he tells me he 
once saw thirty or forty on a large tree in the Dambetenne gorge, 
but never observed so many together on any other occasion.” 
Butler describes its note as “ far more like the hoot of an owl 
than the coo of a Wood-Pigeon, a deep guttural ‘hoom’ repeated at 
intervals.” 
