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domestic gallinae, and when dismayed, it erects its chest, and 

 spreads its tail like a fan in the manner of the turkey-cock. 

 Its flight through the air is by leaps, or undulatory, and, to 

 appearance, performed with considerable labour; but from 

 the migrations which it makes, it must be capable of long 

 continuance.* 



* The hoopoe ( Upupa) is the type of a family Upupidce, between the 

 promerops and the hornbill families. M. 



