A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, and Plants, Volume 4Gray & Bowen, 1831 |
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... eggs and spawn , that are deposited in the mud . This bird is known on the sea coast as the Stilt , Tilt , or Long Shanks ; and naturalists have unaccountably classed it with the genus Plover . - Wilson . THE COURIER Is an Italian bird ...
... eggs and spawn , that are deposited in the mud . This bird is known on the sea coast as the Stilt , Tilt , or Long Shanks ; and naturalists have unaccountably classed it with the genus Plover . - Wilson . THE COURIER Is an Italian bird ...
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... eggs , without any lining but the well cemented mud that forms the sides of the building . She always lays two eggs , and no more ; and , as her legs are immoderately long , she straddles on the nest , while her legs hang down , one on ...
... eggs , without any lining but the well cemented mud that forms the sides of the building . She always lays two eggs , and no more ; and , as her legs are immoderately long , she straddles on the nest , while her legs hang down , one on ...
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... eggs close to the seamark . THE RAZORBILL Is not above half the size of the preceding , which it resem- bles both in form and plumage , except that it has the use of its wings , and lays its egg ( for each of these species lays but one ) ...
... eggs close to the seamark . THE RAZORBILL Is not above half the size of the preceding , which it resem- bles both in form and plumage , except that it has the use of its wings , and lays its egg ( for each of these species lays but one ) ...
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... greatest security . In this fortified retreat it lays one egg ; which , though the bird be not much bigger than a pigeon , is the size of a hen's . Few birds or beasts will venture to attack them in NATURAL HISTORY .
... greatest security . In this fortified retreat it lays one egg ; which , though the bird be not much bigger than a pigeon , is the size of a hen's . Few birds or beasts will venture to attack them in NATURAL HISTORY .
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... eggs ; being full three inches long , blunt at one end , and sharp at the other , of a sort of bluish colour , generally spotted with some black spots or strokes . It flies high and well . The IMBER is less than the preceding , but ...
... eggs ; being full three inches long , blunt at one end , and sharp at the other , of a sort of bluish colour , generally spotted with some black spots or strokes . It flies high and well . The IMBER is less than the preceding , but ...
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