NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. 



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movements peculiar to the season of love : thus ringdoves, though 

 strong and rapid at other times, yet in the spring hang about on 





THE MAGPIE. 



the wing in a toying and playful manner; thus the cock-snipe 

 while breeding, forgetting his former flight, fans the air like the 



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THE JAY (Garrulus glandarius). 



wind-hover; and the green-finch in particular, exhibits such 

 languishing and faltering gestures as to appear like a wounded 



