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his wings at dawn." Yet here again, what wonder that the elu- 

 sive whir of the partridge should have defied analysis, when no 

 less an authority than the peerless Audubon himself was deceived 

 even in the moderate performance of the clumsy rooster or can 

 it be that all the rest of us are blind? for does he not tell us 

 that the grouse " beats his sides after the manner of the domestic 

 cock"? I recall also the parallel lines from the "Summer- day" 

 of Hume, where the "crested bird" is again misrepresented: 



"With gilded eyes and open wings, 



The cock his courage shows ; 

 With claps of joy his breast he dings, 

 And twenty times he crows." 



This will be news to many a country boy who knows the clumsy 

 antics of his pet " Shanghai." 



We all know the "drummer"; many of us have heard the 

 " drumming," but who will show us the drum ? 



