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POPULAR HISTORY OF BIRDS. 
shrill and loud whistle and flew for about a mile^ getting up 
rapidly and shooting off in a horizontal direction. Its egg, 
he tells us, is light green and very blunt at the end ; it has 
none of the polished texture so characteristic of the eggs of 
the tinamou. Mr. Bridges found, on the eastern side of the 
Andes, that elegant species discovered by D^Orbigny, and 
named Tinamotis elegans ; he tells us that the Indians take 
this bird easily, by walking round and round it in gradually- 
contracting circles, until they are near enough to slip a 
noose, at the end of a long cane, over its head. 
