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to be two of them males, and the other a female. When 

 first seen they were flying at a great height ; and coming 

 down they brushed over the copse wood and alighted on 

 the branch of a tree, where they were for some time dis- 

 tinctly visible to two observers, who being well acquainted 

 with this species, had leisure to observe their lengthened and 

 elegant tails, and the peculiar colour of their plumage. 

 When they took wing, their voices resembled that of the 

 Pheasant more than of the Piareon tribe. 



