A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, and Plants, Volume 4Gray & Bowen, 1831 |
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... appear , as the bird is never seen swimming , its legs and thighs being sufficient to bear it into those depths where it seeks for prey . This extraordinary bird is now chiefly found in America , but was once known on all the coasts of ...
... appear , as the bird is never seen swimming , its legs and thighs being sufficient to bear it into those depths where it seeks for prey . This extraordinary bird is now chiefly found in America , but was once known on all the coasts of ...
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... appear to have all the same actions at sea that the swallow has at land , seizing every insect which appears on the surface , and darting down upon the smaller fishes , which they seize with incredible rapidity . The LESSER TERN weighs ...
... appear to have all the same actions at sea that the swallow has at land , seizing every insect which appears on the surface , and darting down upon the smaller fishes , which they seize with incredible rapidity . The LESSER TERN weighs ...
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... appear to run on the top of it : they are also excellent divers . It skims along the hollows of * Wilson supposed the American Stormy Petrel to be the same as that of Europe , but Charles Bonaparte has shown that it is a distinct ...
... appear to run on the top of it : they are also excellent divers . It skims along the hollows of * Wilson supposed the American Stormy Petrel to be the same as that of Europe , but Charles Bonaparte has shown that it is a distinct ...
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... appears compressed sideways , being more than three inches long , and hooked towards the end , like the rest of this kind , of a sort of orange colour ; the nostrils are of an oblong form ; the mouth is wide , with a long tongue and ...
... appears compressed sideways , being more than three inches long , and hooked towards the end , like the rest of this kind , of a sort of orange colour ; the nostrils are of an oblong form ; the mouth is wide , with a long tongue and ...
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... headed Gull in America , appears in New Jersey in the latter part of April . They breed in marshes , and live on worms , insects and animal substances . - Wilson . The Gull , the petrel , the tern , have 20 NATURAL HISTORY . 20.
... headed Gull in America , appears in New Jersey in the latter part of April . They breed in marshes , and live on worms , insects and animal substances . - Wilson . The Gull , the petrel , the tern , have 20 NATURAL HISTORY . 20.
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