Mountain, Meadow, & Mere: A Series of Outdoor Sketches of Sport, Scenery, Adventures, and Natural History ...Henry S. King & Company, 1873 - 226 стор. |
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... bird than it is in the fish - from sea insects , shell - fish , and odds and ends of salted articles of food , to in the ... birds . But the salmon affect many of our fresh - water rivers ; the gulls have only a few favourite breeding ...
... bird than it is in the fish - from sea insects , shell - fish , and odds and ends of salted articles of food , to in the ... birds . But the salmon affect many of our fresh - water rivers ; the gulls have only a few favourite breeding ...
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... birds too , they are , in places where the water is likely to rise and flood them , raised a foot , or even more , above the sur- face , but they invariably have their foundation upon it . Only once has a nest been found in one of the ...
... birds too , they are , in places where the water is likely to rise and flood them , raised a foot , or even more , above the sur- face , but they invariably have their foundation upon it . Only once has a nest been found in one of the ...
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... bird of experimentive genius . The nests are too loosely built , and have too little cohesion , to rest safely among branches . The eggs are generally three in number , and of a yellowish olive brown , spotted with darker brown ; but ...
... bird of experimentive genius . The nests are too loosely built , and have too little cohesion , to rest safely among branches . The eggs are generally three in number , and of a yellowish olive brown , spotted with darker brown ; but ...
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... birds , and there they sit on the water in thousands , swimming as light as a feather , the variegated plumage of the old and young having a striking effect . Formerly the old birds seem to have been killed for the sake of eating , but ...
... birds , and there they sit on the water in thousands , swimming as light as a feather , the variegated plumage of the old and young having a striking effect . Formerly the old birds seem to have been killed for the sake of eating , but ...
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... birds are left to hatch their young in peace . The number collected is about fifteen hundred or two thousand a day , and sometimes three thousand . From this fact some idea of the enor- mous number of birds may be gained . Once , after ...
... birds are left to hatch their young in peace . The number collected is about fifteen hundred or two thousand a day , and sometimes three thousand . From this fact some idea of the enor- mous number of birds may be gained . Once , after ...
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