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humour and delight in teazing a person who shows 

 fear of them. For instance, "Pinto," my female 

 Hawk-head (so named in honour of the Brazilian 



HAWK-HEADED PARROTS, 



gentleman who made me a present of her) would ruffle 

 up all her feathers, hiss, and run round the table in 

 apparently a frantic endeavour to reach an old lady 



