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Idle Days in Patagonia. 



coloured wings wide open and rigid, so that as the 

 bird that had clutched the grass with his great 

 feathered claws, swayed his body slowly from side 



il 



Magellanio eagle owl. 



to side just as a snake about to strike sways his 

 head, or as an angry watchful cat moves its tail 

 first the tip of one, then of the other wing touched 



