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to

check

on

fallen

comrades.

in

his

classic

american

omithology,

written

in

the

early

nineteenth

century,

charleswillson

peale

describes

an

occasion

in

which

he

repeatedly

empties

a

shotgun

into

a

tree

inwhich

they

roost:

at

each

successive

discharge,

though

showers

of

them

fell,

yet

the

affection

of

thesurvivors

seemed

rather