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MATING AMONG BIRDS 



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ignorant, the superstitious and narrow-minded who entertain such 

 views. We have plenty of storks, black grouse, and even Euro- 

 pean cuckoos and American cow-birds among our own species, 

 but the significance of all this, and its biological importance to 

 our kind, I shall endeavor to point out in another connection 



