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IR D S, from their elegant and 
beautiful coloring, the graceful ease 
of their flight, their varied music, 
their tender solicitude for their young, their singular and 
engaging instincts, their susceptibility of domestication, and 
their subserviency to the sustenance of man, have, for ages 
past, attracted universal admiration, and, as objects of human 
interest, and even affection, they stand foremost, perhaps, in 
*he entire range of animated nature. 
