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fight whenever they meet. Tlie presence of the female is 



Fig. 38. Palamedea cornuta (from Brehm i. showing the double wing-spurs and 

 the filament on the head. 



the teferrima helli causa. The Bengali baboos make the 

 pretty little m^les of the amadavat {Estrelda amandava) 



