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time of year, on the seeds entrusted to the 
soil or the gleanings left by the reaper. 
Evening comes; and he seeks a tree where 
he may pass the night. In shrubby plains 
he retires to a broom or a thorny bush, and 
feels that he may sleep secure. At the 
approach of an intruder, however, he at 
once flies off to a more complete conceal- 
ment. 
Naturalists do not speak very enthusi- 
astically of his moral and physical charac- 
teristics. They admit that the male has 
a haughty and majestic march, but it is 
inferior, they say, to that of the domestic 
cock. He flies laboriously, heavily, al- 
most clumsily. As for his intelligence, it 
