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The male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes, certainly seems to be a polygamist. 'The Ibis, vol. iii. 1861, p. 133, on the Progne Widow-bird. See also on the Vidua axillaris, ibid. vol. ii. 1860, p. 211. On the polygamy of the Capercailzie and Great Bustard, see L. Lloyd, 'Game Birds of Sweden, 1867, pp. 19, and 182.
It came to many out of Exomologesis, De esu carnium, Lingua, Institutio christiani matrimonii, Vidua christiana, Ecclesiastes. But, to far larger numbers, the message was contained in the Colloquies. The Colloquia gave rise to much more hatred and contest than the Moria, and not without reason, for in them Erasmus attacked persons.
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