A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, and Plants, Volume 4Gray & Bowen, 1831 |
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... seems to constitute the food of this Tern . - Wilson . SHORT TAILED TERN . On the sixth of September , 1812 , after a violent northeast storm which inundated the meadows of Schuylkill in many places , numerous flocks of this Tern all at ...
... seems to constitute the food of this Tern . - Wilson . SHORT TAILED TERN . On the sixth of September , 1812 , after a violent northeast storm which inundated the meadows of Schuylkill in many places , numerous flocks of this Tern all at ...
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... seem to be diffused all over the world . They sometimes hover over the water like swal- lows , and sometimes appear to run on the top of it : they are also excellent divers . It skims along the hollows of * Wilson supposed the American ...
... seem to be diffused all over the world . They sometimes hover over the water like swal- lows , and sometimes appear to run on the top of it : they are also excellent divers . It skims along the hollows of * Wilson supposed the American ...
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... seem scarcely as large as a swallow : and their loudest screaming is scarce perceptible . Yet even here these animals are not in perfect security from the arts and activity of man . Want , which is the great spring of human exertion ...
... seem scarcely as large as a swallow : and their loudest screaming is scarce perceptible . Yet even here these animals are not in perfect security from the arts and activity of man . Want , which is the great spring of human exertion ...
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... seems to be plen- ty . All the other web - footed tribes are continually vora- cious , continually preying . These lead more harmless lives the weeds on the surface of the water , or the in- sects at the bottom , the grass by the bank ...
... seems to be plen- ty . All the other web - footed tribes are continually vora- cious , continually preying . These lead more harmless lives the weeds on the surface of the water , or the in- sects at the bottom , the grass by the bank ...
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... seem to take the alarm , and when in danger , the old birds carry off the young ones on their back . A female has been known to attack and drown a fox , which was swimming towards her nest : they are able to throw down and trample on ...
... seem to take the alarm , and when in danger , the old birds carry off the young ones on their back . A female has been known to attack and drown a fox , which was swimming towards her nest : they are able to throw down and trample on ...
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