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TALKS ABOUT BIRDS 



feels some jealousy when he sees any others 

 of his own kind fighting. What is really 

 very strange is the habit some birds have 

 of appointing themselves to the position of 



magistrate or monitor when they get into 

 the company of other species quite different 

 from their own, some of which they would 

 never meet in a state of nature. 



This is the case, for instance, with that 



