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like tke domestic cock^ seems to be picking up some- 
thing from the ground, until at last the female goes 
gently towards him.” Captain Stokes has described 
the habits and ‘^play-houses” of another species, the 
Fig. 4 6. Bower-bird, Chlamydera maculata, witn bower (from Brehm). 
