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the little valley. Francis, quietly amused, smiled as I tied 

 my handkerchief tenderfoot fashion to my gun; expressing 

 quite as much as a multitude of chafiing remarks could have 

 done. 



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First Phase of Curassow Strutting, a Slow Walk with Raised Tail. 

 Fig. 135. Rear view. Fig. 136. Side view. 



Foot by foot I pushed through or crawled under fallen 

 trees and tangled vines and tree-ferns, close to the hot steam- 

 ing forest mould, with the low distant booming becoming 

 ever more distinct. The ventriloquial quality completely 

 deceived me, and long after I thought to see the performer I 

 went on and on for many yards. At last I turned to the 

 south to gain the shelter of a great fallen tree which had 



