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around the middle. It could crawl around quite well and had strong black feet with 4 toes. The wings of course were mere bone covered with down.
Once it uttered a [[underline]] very [[/underline]] faint note that I could scarcely hear though only 4 feet away. I set the little fellow down once and he fell into a hole. Then he climbed up under the herbage and sat still.
Finally I turned away while he was on the ground.  When I looked
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he was gone. I did not hunt much for fear of stepping on him. Then I went back to where the old ones were. Saw another youngster. While looking at the ground I saw some fine egg shell on the ground. I stooped down to look at it. Suddenly I found myself looking into the best concealed nest in the world. It was built in a tussock of matted grass and was hidden by the grass. There were 3 eggs in it, all pipped. They were pale buffy white
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