112 BIRD BEHAVIOUR 



it, but generally speaking, his extreme ostentation, 

 combined with an inconsiderateness not shown by 

 the more modestly and tastefully attired Carolina, 

 looks as if it were designed as a satire on the human 

 dandy, notoriously the worst and most indifferent 

 of husbands. The parallel, however, would be a 

 dangerous one, for except in generosity, the Man- 

 darin yields little if at all to his American cousin as 

 a lover. 



