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old male is always more watchful than the others and if any danger threatens he warns the others by a number of harsh notes like [[underlined]] chr-r-r-r-r chew chew chew [[/underlined]].
When a male is courting a female or when he gets in the way of the others they fight him and all go flying swiftly off doubling back and forth a few feet from the ground and at last lighting somewhere

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and having it out.  I once caught one when they flew into a woodpile and a friend mine caught two as they [[rolled?]] off a [[roof?]].  at this time great flocks of them are [[funling?]] in different places all coming back to roost.  The country is full of them and most of them come to the towns in the winter. ___
Oct 17, Tuesday.
Today as I was in