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or needless motions. Their note is a guttural, 

 rolling sound, which may be slightly represented 

 by the letters hrrr, krrr; it is useless, however, 

 to imitate it, excepting to turn their attention to 

 decoys. They are usually abundant the entire 

 spring. Chicago sixes are the proper-sized shot. 



