BIRDS OP THE WEST 



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test or two pretty dressers having a strutting contest to win the 

 wing of a female in marriage, it is too bad to tell us that they prob- 

 ably did not know what they were doing. 



That there is Nature faking goes without saying, but it is to 

 be hoped that the reaction against idealization of the non-human 

 will not cut the heart out of Nature. 



