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throat of a barn-door cock ; but a landrail appears to be a bird 

 quite unfitted to produce a sound like that of a piece of iron 

 drawn along the teeth of a rusty saw. There is a way of imi- 

 tating their cry so exactly, as to bring the bird to your feet, but 

 I never could succeed in doing so, or indeed in making it answer 

 me at all, though I have tried the plan which I was told was 

 infallible, of drawing the edges of two horse's ribs against each 

 other, one of them being smooth and the other notched like a 

 saw. Although the fields were swarming with the birds at the 

 time, I never succeeded in persuading even a single one to 

 answer me. 



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