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forests ; while an even greater number have the habits 

 of our Brown Creepers. The Swainson Wood-hewers 



THE LAUGHING FALCON 



which we saw were so timid and silent that they were 

 difficult birds to find and to watch. 



The Laughing Falcons had uttered no sound within 

 our hearing, until we found them in these tropical 



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