The Senegal Pie. 
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much attached as the Oxpeckers are to the cattle. They hop 
about amongst them, ride on their backs, while searching their 
coats for ticks, and generally act as friends and attendants on 
Photo by W . Shore Baily. 
The Senegal Pie. 
their four-footed companions. If disturbed they fly to the 
n"arest tree with shrill squeaks (almost the word creek) which 
are distinctly shriller in the female than in the male; from this 
post of vantage they scold at the intruder, whether man. dog. or 
