REMINISCENCES FROM THE MELBOURNE ZOO. 
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and retiring, bowing and scraping most ceremoniously to each other the 
while. Suddenly one will pick up a twig from the mound, and with it 
in his beak will fly up perhaps six or eight feet, then will drop the twig, 
but always before it reaches the ground he catches it again. He will be 
The Good Samaritan and his mate. 
descending when another imitates his action, and so they go in rotation, 
though these short flights never impede or interrupt the continuity of the 
high-stepping of their comrades. Next one will fly from one end of the 
ring to the other, just above the heads of the dancers. Another will fly to 
