BIRDS OF THE WEST 



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The high dive of the nighthawk, the tossing of a fish into 

 the air and catching it before swallowing it, as the cormorant 

 does, the strutting and puffing and blowing of prairie chickens, 

 the soaring of larks, hawks and eagles are only useful means of 

 bird enjojonent. Speaking of concerts, ask the blackbirds. 



