A movement on my part would doubtless scare her; but my restful presence gives her no anxiety.

I am nothing to her.
The discharge does not go on continuously until the ovaries are exhausted; it is intermittent and performed in so many packets.

Several times over, the Fly leaves the bird's beak and comes to take a rest upon the wire-gauze, where she brushes her hind-legs one against the other.

In particular, before using it again, she cleans, smooths and polishes her laying-tool, the probe that places the eggs.

Then, feeling her womb still teeming, she returns to the same spot at the joint of the beak.