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maining bird can find a mate, which it generally 

 manages to do. There are, too, but very few in 

 Britain at any time, their principal headquarters 

 seeming to be in America ; and though living in 

 tolerable peace in the Highlands, they do not 

 appear to increase nor to breed in any localities 

 excepting where they find a situation for their 

 nest similar to what I have already described. 

 As they in no way interfere with the sportsman 

 or others, it is a great pity that they should ever 

 be destroyed. 



