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available tar their purpose tffl they Ired made the 

 experiment. I have thought, from watching the 

 tions of birds that go in flights, that most of 

 have a kind of leader or chief. They do not yield any- 



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as the bees do to the queen-bee, and exhibit little 

 traces of following his motions implicitly. Hie is 

 Hke the president of a republic ; each 

 virtually free, and twitters ms or her mind just as he 

 orshefikes. But it seems to be reserved to one bird 

 to give the signal for all to move. So these martins, 

 after fingering about the wall for hoars some of 

 them, too, leaving it and flying away only to come 

 back again finally started afl together. It is dim- 



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movements, unless we suppose that it is reserved to 

 a certain bird to give the signaL 

 In the lock of a great apple tree a 



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donbtkss of the same family, have used the tree for 

 many years. Though the nest is large, the young 

 birds as they grow up soon get too big for it, and fefl 

 out. This period just before the young can fly is 



ffi^ most rrilical in fhgir P-XKlf9tQpj aiMJ ^aiiofBc. fh^ 



greatest anxiety to the parents. Without the re- 



fast ttaougfi the long grass, betraying their _ 



by confumaHy crying for food, they are exposed to 



dongas uoiik cwiy species of vomiii. 



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